The specimen is viewed from above and from the left with the anterior abdominal wall pulled forward (toward the top of the photograph). Peritoneum has been preserved in a small area immediately lateral to the deep inguinal ring and, above this, on the interior of the abdominal wall. A small, persistent processus vaginalis (15) is present. It extends as a narrow tube through the deep ingnuinal ring into the upper end of the inguinal canal.