2024. 



HUMAN ANATOMY. 



join those of the labia majora, as well as communicate with the veins of the clitoris 

 and bulb. The lymphatics of the labia are very numerous, notably in the more 

 superficial parts of the folds, a half dozen or more trunks passing to the upper and 

 medial group of inguinal lymph-nodes. The lymphatics from the nymphae, also 

 very numerous, join the af?erents from the labia majora and end in the same inguinal 

 nodes. Communications sometimes exist with the nodes of the opposite sides 

 (Bruhns). 



The nerves supplying the anterior half of the labia majora are derived from 

 the ilio-inguinal and the genital branch of the genito-crural, while the posterior part 

 of the labia receive filaments from the perineal branches of the pudic and the small 

 sciatic trunks. The nymphse are highly sensitive and receive branches from- the 

 superficial perineal nerves upon which special sensory endings are found within the 

 subepithelial tissue. 



THE CLITORIS. 



The clitoris, the homologue of the penis, repeats in reduced size and modified 

 form the chief components of the organ of the male. Morphologically considered, it 

 consists of two corpora cavernosa, united in front into the body and separated behind 

 into the crura attached to the pubic arch, and the imperfectly developed and cleft 

 corpus spongiosum — known as the bulbus vestibuli and usually described as an inde- 

 pendent organ. 



The clitoris lies so buried within the subcutaneous tissue and beneath the labia 

 that only its small conical anterior end, called the glans cliioridis, and the low verti- 



FiG. 1708. 



Pars intermedia — 



Urethral orifice 



Bulbus vestibuli 

 Vaginal orifice 



Inferior layer of 

 triangular ligament 



^- — 'v ^-- Suspensory ligament 



% ^^v of clitoris 



Corpus clitoridis 



Glans clitoridis 



Crus clitoridis curved 

 by ischio-cavernosus 

 muscle 



Cut edge 



Compressor bulbi 

 Transversus perinei 



Dissection of urogenital triangle of female, showing clitoris and bulbus vestibuli. 



cal ridge of integument over the body (torus clitoridis) appear when the labia are 

 separated. The glans, about 5 mm. in diameter, is pardy concealed by an annular 

 duplicature of skin, \.he preputhan clitoridis, that is free in front and at the sides, but 

 behind is attached by a median fold, the fremim, continuous with the nymphae. 

 When e.xposed after removal of the labia and skin, the clitoris (using the term in the 

 more restricted and conventional sense) is seen to consist of the small unpaired body 

 (corpus clitoridis), from 2 to 2.5 cm. long, composed of the fused corpora cavernosa, 

 and the diverging and much larger crura, from 3.5-4 cm. in length, that are attached 

 to the sides of the subpubic arch, as are the corresponding parts of the penis. The 

 crura clitoridis are, however, relatively flat and blunt. The dependent body forms 

 a sharp bend with the diverging crura, being fixed to the lower part of the symphy- 

 sis pubis by a diminutive suspensory ligament. Owing to its attachments to the in- 



