Trabeculae of corpus spongiosum of penis

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Trabeculae of corpus spongiosum of penis
Latin	trabeculae corporis spongiosi penis
Gray's	subject #262 1250
Dorlands/Elsevier	t_14/12815126

The fibrous envelope of the corpus cavernosum urethræ is thinner, whiter in color, and more elastic than that of the corpora cavernosa penis. It is called the trabeculae of corpus spongiosum of penis.

The trabeculæ are more delicate, nearly uniform in size, and the meshes between them smaller than in the corpora cavernosa penis: their long diameters, for the most part, corresponding with that of the penis.

The external envelope or outer coat of the corpus cavernosum urethræ is formed partly of unstriped muscular fibers, and a layer of the same tissue immediately surrounds the canal of the urethra.

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