THE LYMPHATIC VESSELS OF ABDOMINAL AND PELVIC VISCERA 713 



The Lymphatic Vessels of the Prostate (Fig. 619) terminate chiefly in the hypo- 

 gastric and sacral glands, but one trunk from the posterior surface ends in the exter- 

 nal iliac glands, and another from the anterior surface joins the vessels which drain 

 the membranous part of the urethra. 



Lymphatic Vessels of the Urethra. The lymphatics of the cavernous portion of 

 the urethra.accompany those of the glans penis, and terminate with them in the deep 

 subinguinal and external iliac glands. Those of the membranous and prostatic 

 portions, and those of the whole urethra in the female, pass to the hypogastric glands. 



Vessels draining 

 into ext. iliac 

 glands 





Retroprostatic 

 lymph-nodes 

 Vessels draining 

 into gland on 

 sacral prom- 

 ontory 



Gland in front 

 of sacral 

 promontory 



Lateral sacral 

 glands 



Ext. iliac 

 glands 



., Vessels drain- 

 ing into 

 gland on 

 sacral prom- 

 ontory 



"Middle hem- 

 orrhoidal 

 gland 



mMiddle hem- 

 orrhoidal 

 lymphatic 

 vessels 



FIG. 619. Lymphatics of the prostate. (Cun6o and Marcille.) 



(4) The lymphatic vessels of the reproductive organs. 



The Lymphatic Vessels of the Testes consist of two sets, superficial and deep, 

 the former commencing on the surface of the tunica vaginalis, the latter in the 

 epididymis and body of the testis. They form from four to eight collecting trunks 

 which ascend with the spermatic veins in the spermatic cord and along the front 

 of the Psoas major to the level w r here the spermatic vessels cross the ureter and end 

 in the lateral and preaortic groups of lumbar glands. 1 



The Lymphatic Vessels of the Ductus Deferens pass to the external iliac glands; 

 those of the vesiculse seminales partly to the hypogastric and partly to the external 

 glands. 



1 "The Lymphatics of the Testicle," by Jamieson and Dobaon, Lancet, February 19, 1900. 



