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THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 



urinary meatus, but witli a sliglit forward inclination l)elow; the membranous 

 portion and the posterior i)art of the spontrv portion as far as the anterior border 

 of tlie suspensory Hgament of the penis describe a curve beneath the symphysis; 

 lastly, the jjortion of the spongy urethra, beyond the penile angle, follows" the 

 direction of the pendent portion of the penis and necessarily follows the movements 

 of that organ. 



Fig. (530.— The Male Urethra, cleft dorsally to show Ventral Mrcous "Wall. 



URETER -V 



Plica uretica 



SECTION OF BLADDER 



INTERNAL URINARY MEATUS 



PROSTATIC SINUS WITH OPENING OF 



PROSTATIC GLANDS CwiKj a* '^ 



SINUS POCULARIS ■ Mj H . ^ 



FOLLICULAR GLANDS OF DORSAL WALL 



COWPER'S GLAND 



SEPTUM PECTINIFORME 



THIN LAYER OF CORPUS SPONGIOSUM 

 ORIFICE OF COWPER'S GLAND 



Albuginea of corpora cavernosa 



SECTION OF PROSTATE 

 VERUMONTANUM 

 EJACULATORY DUCT 

 PROSTATIC GLANDS 



MEMBRANOUS URETHRA 



SECTION OF CORPUS CAVERNOSUM 



BULBOUS PORTION OF URETHRA 



Mucous membrane 



FOSSA NAVICULARIS 



EXTERNAL URINARY MEATUS 



PREPUCE 

 GLANS PENIS 



Its average length is still variously stated by different authorities, but the inves- 

 tigations of Cazenave and Sappey, confirmed as they are by the frozen sections of 

 Braune and others, set the matter at rest so far as the pliysiological condition is 

 concerned. In the ordinary relaxed state of the penis the distance l)etween the 

 internal and external meatus does not usually exceed six inches and a half (16 

 CHL), and maybe less than this when the organ is contracted to its mininunu 



