MALE OEGANS OF REPEODUCTION 



501 



cinian corpuscle, but differs somewhat from these bodies. It perhaps 

 more nearly resembles the genital corpuscles. These bodies are. dis- 

 tinctly lamellated and possess a broad axial nerve fiber which some- 

 what resembles that of the end bulbs of Krause. This nerve fiber is, 



'^^'.^"^ty-i 1 *;- 



FIG. 445. FROM A SECTION OF THE BUL- 

 BO-URETHRAL (CoWPER's) GLAND OF MAN. 



a, duct; 6, tubules; c, stroma. 

 (After Braus.) 



X 130. 



however, accompanied by another and finer fiber 

 which, as Timofejew (Anat. Anz., 1896) has 

 shown, breaks into a close network of fine fibrils 

 surrounding the axial nerve fiber in a peculiar 

 basket-like manner. 



The Bulbo-urethral Glands (Cowper's 

 Glands}. These are two small tubulo-acinar mu- 

 cus-secreting glands which are divisible into 

 numerous small lobules. The lobules are sep- 

 arated by connective tissue septa containing both 

 smooth and striated muscle fibers. The latter 



are continuous with the adjacent compressor urethras muscle. The se- 

 creting acini are' lined by columnar cells, some of which are finely 

 granular and stain with eosin and acid dyes, while others are apparently 

 filled with mucous secretion and react to the specific dyes for mucin. 

 Certain other tubular alveoli are lined by low cuboidal or flattened epi- 

 thelium. The epithelium rests upon a distinct cellular basement mem- 

 brane. 



FIG. 444. RECON- 

 STRUCTION OF A BUL- 

 BO-URETHRAL (COW- 

 PER'S) GLAND OF 



MAN. 



The tubular ducts 

 are closely surrounded 

 by the expanded alve- 

 oli. X 100^ (After 

 Maziarski.) 



