460 SPLANCHNOLOGY, OR ANATOMY OF THE VISCERA 



interiorly of fatty and fibrous tissue; the labia, of areolar 

 fatty and dartoid tissue with vessels and nerves; the nymphce, 

 of a plexus of vessels covered by mucous membrane. 



The clitoris is the analogue of the penis, consisting, like it, 

 of two corpora cavernosa united by a septum pectiniforme 

 and prolonged behind into two crura attached to the pubic 

 and ischial rami. It also has a suspensory ligament and a 

 glans enclosed by the nymphse. Two erectores clitoridis muscles 

 are attached to the crura. It has no corpus spongiosum or 

 urethra. 



Between the clitoris and the vagina, bounded on each side 

 by the nymphse, is the vestibule, a triangular' space, in which, 

 just above the vagina, is the meatus urinarius, one inch below 

 the clitoris. 



The hymen is a mucous fold which more or less completely 

 occludes the orificium vaginae. It is generally semilunar in 

 form, concave above, or it may be a complete membrane, 

 perforate or imperforate, or it may be absent. After labor 

 its remains form the carunculae myrtiformes. 



The glands of Bartholin, the analogues of Cowper's glands 

 in the male, are two yellowish bodies on each side of the vaginal 

 opening, each of which discharges by a single duct between 

 the hymen and the nymphee. 



On each side of the vestibule, behind the nymphse, is a 

 leech-shaped mass, the bulbus vestibuli. Each consists of a 

 venous plexus enclosed by a fibrous capsule, and is about one 

 inch long. In front of these, and connecting them with the 

 vessels of the clitoris, is a small venous plexus, the jtdrt* inter- 

 media of Kobelt. 



THE URETHRA 



'The female -urethra is a mucous canal, \\ inches long, running 

 downward and forward in the anterior vaginal wall from the 

 neck of the bladder to the meatus. As in the male, it pierces 

 the triangular ligament, and is surrounded by the compressor 

 urethra? muscle. It consists of a muscular, a mucous, and 

 between them an erectile coat. It is supplied with numerous 

 glands, and just within the meatus near the floor are two 

 ducts which extend upward for about f inch. These are called 

 Skene's tubules. 



