Quain's elements of anatomy . 674 THE PE^y^IS. The intertrabecular spaces thus form a labyrinth of intercommuni-cating venous areolse divided by the trabecular tissue, and openingfreely from one corpus cavernosum to the other through the septum,especially in front. The blood is carried away from these spaces by twosets of veins, the one set joining the prostatic plexus and pudendalveins ; the others passing into the dorsal vein. Of these last some issue Fig. Fig. 586.—Part of a section of one op the corpora cavernosa, injected from theDEEP artery op THE PENIS (Henle).On the left is seen
Quain's elements of anatomy . 674 THE PE^y^IS. The intertrabecular spaces thus form a labyrinth of intercommuni-cating venous areolse divided by the trabecular tissue, and openingfreely from one corpus cavernosum to the other through the septum,especially in front. The blood is carried away from these spaces by twosets of veins, the one set joining the prostatic plexus and pudendalveins ; the others passing into the dorsal vein. Of these last some issue Fig. Fig. 586.—Part of a section of one op the corpora cavernosa, injected from theDEEP artery op THE PENIS (Henle).On the left is seen the fibrous tissue ; at ??, a section of the arteria profunda penis. from between the corpus cavernosum and the spongy body of the urethra,encircling the penis nearly at right angles, while others pass moredirectly into the dorsal vein from the upper surface. The principal arteries of the corpora cavernosa are the cavernous Fio-. 587. -^S- 587. —Helicine arteries with THEIR sheaths, &c. (from Henle),Magnified with a low power. A and B, from the corpus cavernosumpenis; D, from the corpus spongiosumurethrffi ; C, transverse section of one ofthe helicine arteries ; in this and theother figures the smaller lateral pro-longations of the arterial vessels into thesheath are shown ; * *, fasciculi of con-nective tissue passing oiF from the sum-mit of two of the sheaths. branches of the pudic arteries(profundge penis), of the rightand left sides; but th
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