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Cowper's glands secrete a clear, viscid fluid, regarding the use of 

 which little is known with certainty. 



The blood-vessels supplying Cowper's glands, derived usually 

 as branches of the artery of the bulb, pass between the lobules, in 

 company with the ducts, supported by the intervening connective 

 tissue ; the capillaries form net-works around the individual acini. 

 Lymph-spaces occur within the fibrous envelope and within the 

 larger masses of connective tissue penetrating the organ. 



The nerves are branches from the pudic nerve : regarding their 

 termination little is definitely known. 



