Urethral artery
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Urethral artery | |
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Details | |
Source | internal pudendal artery[1] or perineal artery[citation needed] |
Supplies | membranous urethra, glans penis |
Identifiers | |
Latin | arteria urethralis |
TA98 | A12.2.15.042 |
TA2 | 4348 |
FMA | 20903 |
Anatomical terminology |
The urethral artery arises from the internal pudendal artery a branch of the internal iliac artery. The internal pudendal artery has numerous branches including the artery of the bulb of the penis immediately before the urethral and the dorsal artery of the penis more distally.[2]
In the male, it penetrates the perineal membrane and provides blood to the urethra and nearby erectile tissue to the glans.[3] In the female, the urethral artery serves the analogous structures. Because the female urethra is so much shorter than the male, this structure is often impossible to find on a female cadaver.
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 619 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
- ^ Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 269. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.
- ^ Netter, F. H. (2006). Atlas of human anatomy. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier.
- ^ Drake, R. L., Vogl, W., Mitchell, A. W. M., & Gray, H. (2015). Gray's anatomy for students.
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