Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prostate gland: more fully called
glandula prostatica .
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The prostatic portion (pars prostatica), the widest and most dilatable part of the canal, is about 3 cm. long, It runs almost vertically through the prostate from its base to its apex, lying nearer its anterior than its posterior surface; the form of the canal is spindle-shaped, being wider in the middle than at either extremity, and narrowest below, where it joins the membranous portion.
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Finally, there is a discussion of those rudimentary structures which occur only in _one_ sex, such as the rudimentary mammary glands in the male, the vesicula prostatica, which corresponds to the uterus of the female, and others.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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It is a small, flask-shaped vesicle without any physiological significance, which opens into the ureter between the two spermaducts and the prostate folds (vesicula prostatica).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Mullerian ducts, while in the male only the lowest ends of them remain as the "male womb" (vesicula prostatica).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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