. The anatomy and physiology of the human body. Containing the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints; and the heart and arteries . ich forms a cellular texture ; into this texturethe arteries pour their blood so as to occasion erection. Theposterior extremities of these cavernous tubes are called crurapenis: they separate in the perineum, and each of them takeshold on the ramus of the os pubis. Fore ward, these cavern-ous bodies or tubes terminate in rounded points under theglans penis. This internal tissue consists of cells connected with eachother, and having a free communication through
. The anatomy and physiology of the human body. Containing the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints; and the heart and arteries . ich forms a cellular texture ; into this texturethe arteries pour their blood so as to occasion erection. Theposterior extremities of these cavernous tubes are called crurapenis: they separate in the perineum, and each of them takeshold on the ramus of the os pubis. Fore ward, these cavern-ous bodies or tubes terminate in rounded points under theglans penis. This internal tissue consists of cells connected with eachother, and having a free communication through the wholeextent of the penis. They are intei-posed betwixt the extre-mities of the arteries and veins, or probably while the arterieshave communication, and open into the extremities of theveins, in the common way: they have such connexions withthe cellular structure, that in the accelerated or excited actionthey pour their blood into the cells ; yet in such a manner,that the blood circulates in the penis during erection as atother times, and the blood in the cavernous body is not stag-nant. Section of the penis^ as infiated. B. A, Corpus cavernosum Penis. B, Septum. C, Urethra. D,Corpus spongiosum Minus, or spongiosum Urethrae. •i84- STRUCTUKE OF THE PENIS. Corpus spongiosum urethra.—Attachedto the cavernousbody of the penis there is a spongy body similar in structure;through this celkdar or cavernous texture the canal for theurine, called the urethra, takes its course, which gives rise tothe name spongy body of the urethra, or corpus spongiosumiiret/irx. The spongy body extends the whole length of the penis,and where it extends backwards into the perineum, betwixtthe crura of the penis, it is enlarged into a round head, whichis called the bulbous part;—it is upon this, and on about aninch and a half of the lower part of the spongy body, that theejaculator seminis or accelerator urinff. acts ; and,as within thisenlargement of the spongy body which surrounds the urethrec
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