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Title: Anatomy, descriptive and applied
Identifier: anatomydescript00gray (find matches)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861; Spitzka, Edward Anthony, 1876-1922
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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THE TEfiTICLES AND THEIR COVERINGS 1371 The fibrous coat consists of \Yhite fibrous tissue which supports the other coats. The urethra, because it is not surrounded by dense resisting structures, as in the male, aduiite of creat dilatation, which enables the surgeon to remove with considerable facility calculi or other foreign bodies from the cavity of the bladder.
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Fig. 1139.—Mesal section through the pelv 5 of a woman, aged twenty-one years. (Corning.) Peritoneum in blue. THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. The male reproductive organs (ore/ana genitalia virilia) include the testes, the vasa deferentia, the seminal vesicles, the ejaculatory ducts, and the penis, together with the following accessory structures—viz., the prostate and Cowper's glands. THE TESTICLES (TESTES) AND THEIR COVERINGS (Figs. 1140, 1141). The testes are two glandular organs, which secrete the spermatozoa; they are situated in the scrotum, being suspended by the spermatic cords. At an early period of fetal life the testes are contained in the abdominal cavity, behind the peritoneum. Before birth they descend to the inguinal canal, along which they pass with the spermatic cord, and emerging at the external abdominal ring, they descend into the scrotum, becoming invested in their course by coverings derived

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