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  • Fig. 9, Plate 57, represents a congenital hypospadias, in which the canal of the urethra opens by two distinct apertures along the under surface of the corpus spongiosum at the middle line.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The corpus spongiosum does not continue the canal of the urethra as far forwards as the usual position of the meatus, but has become defective behind the fraenum praeputii, leaving the canal open at this place.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • In some instances of old neglected cases the corpus spongiosum appears converted into a thick gristly cartilaginous mass, several inches in extent, the passage here being very much contracted, and chiefly so at the middle of the stricture.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • In this case, as the whole substance of the corpus spongiosum was destroyed for half an inch in extent, the taliacotian operation, by which lost quantity is supplied, is the measure most likely to succeed in closing the canal.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The separation of the placenta from the uterine wall takes place through the stratum spongiosum, and necessarily causes rupture of the uterine vessels.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • The Corpus Cavernosum Urethræ (corpus spongiosum) contains the urethra.

    XI. Splanchnology. 3c. 5. The Penis 1918

  • Between this plate and the uterine muscular fibres are the stratum spongiosum and the boundary layer; through these and the basal plate the uterine arteries and veins pass to and from the intervillous space.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • In the stratum spongiosum the glands are compressed and appear as slit-like fissures, while their epithelium undergoes degeneration.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • The main substance of the penis is composed of three cavernous bodies, the paired _corpora cavernosa penis_, and the single _corpus spongiosum_, or

    The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

  • It seems not improbable that the specific sensation of orgasm rises from the stimulation of the peculiar form of nerve end-bulbs which Krause found in the corpus spongiosum and in the glans.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899

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