Urethral artery
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| Artery: Urethral artery | |
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| Diagram of the arteries of the penis. | |
| Latin | arteria urethralis |
| Gray's | subject #155 619 |
| Supplies | membranous urethra, glans penis |
| Source | internal pudendal artery[1] or perineal artery[2] |
| Dorlands / Elsevier |
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The urethral artery arises a short distance in front of the artery of the urethral bulb.
It runs forward and medialward, pierces the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm and enters the corpus cavernosum urethræ, in which it is continued forward to the glans penis.
[edit] References
- ^ Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 269. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.
- ^ Urethral+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
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