300 NORMAL HISTOLOGY AND ORGANOGRAPHY. 



and run forward near each other to open into the 

 floor of the bulbous portion of the male urethra. 



In the female the analogue of these bodies is 

 called the glands of Bartholin. They open into and 

 lie in close apposition to the female urethra. They 

 may be palpated in the lateral walls of the vestibule 

 of the vagina. 



