THE URINARY APPARATUS. 



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form, which often serves as a term of comparison, and resembles more or less 

 that of a haricot bean, or the heart on a playing-card. The latter configuration 



Fig. 338. 



STTPERIOR AND GENERAL VIEW OF THK (il:;MTO-URIXARY APPARATUS IN THE MALE, WITH THE 



ARTERIES. 



A, Left kidney ; B, right kidney ; a, b, ureters ; C, C, supra-renal capsules ; D, bladder ; e, e, tes- 

 ticles; e, head of the epididymus ; e', tail of the epididymus ; F, deferent canal ; G, pelvic dilata- 

 tion of the deferent canal ; H, left vesicula seminales (the right has been removed, along with the 

 deferent canal of the same side, to show the insertion of the ureters into the bladder) ; i, prostate ; 

 J, Cowper's glands; K, membranous, or intra-pelvic portion of the urethral canal; L, its bulbous 

 portion ; M, cavernous body of the penis ; m, m, its roots ; N, head of the penis. 1, Abdominal 

 aorta; 2, 2, arteries (renal) giving off the principal capsular artery; 3, spermatic artery; 4, 

 common origin of the umbilical and arteries of the bulb ; 5, umbilical artery ; 6, its vesical branch ; 

 7, internal artery of the bulb; 8, its vesico-prostatic branch. 



