Title: The anatomy of the domestic animals
Identifier: anatomyofdomesti01siss (find matches)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Sisson, Septimus, 1865-1924
Subjects: Veterinary anatomy
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, W. B. Saunders Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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584 GENITAL ORGANS OF THE STALLION amount. Beneath the skin there is a large amount of loose connective tissue, except over the glans penis, where the skin is closely attached to the tunic of the erectile tissue. The external part of the prepuce is strengthened by a layer of elastic tissue, derived from the abdominal tunic, and termed the suspensory liga- ment of the prepuce. Vessels and Nerves.—The arteries are branches of the external pudic artery, and the veins go chiefly to the external pudic vein. The l3miph vessels go to the superficial inguinal and lumbar lymph glands. The nerves are derived from the pudic, ilio-hypogastric, and ilio-inguinal nerves. THE MALE URETHRA The male urethra (Urethra masculina) is the long mucous tube which extends from the bladder to the glans penis. It passes backward on the floor of the pelvis, Lateral lobe of -prostate Orifice of uterus wasculinus — Ducts of lateral urethral glands
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Collicvlus scminalis Ducts of bulho-urethral glands ELVic Urethra and Posterior Part of Bl.\dder of Horse Slit Ventrally apjd Laid Open. e.d., openings of ductus doferentes and ducta of vesiculse seminales. turns around the ischial arch, forming a sharp bend, and passes forward as a part of the penis, enclosed in the corpus cavernosum urethrse. It may, therefore, be divided into two parts, pelvic and extrapelvic. The pelvic part (Pars pelvina) is four or five inches (ca. 10 to 12 cm.) long. At its origin it is not distinguishable from the neck of the bladder in size or structure; in fact, no line of demarcation exists between the two. Behind the prostate the tube dilates to a potential wdth of two inches or more (ca. 5 to 6 cm.). Near the

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