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penis
Pronunciation (pē′nis, pē′nēz, pē′nis-ez)
- The organ of copulation and urination in the male; formed of three columns of erectile tissue, two arranged laterally on the dorsum (corpora cavernosa penis) and one median ventrally (corpus spongiosum penis); the urethra traverses the latter; the extremity (glans penis) is formed by an expansion of the corpus spongiosum and is more or less completely covered by a free fold of skin (prepuce).
Syn: intromittent organ, membrum virile, phallus (2) , priapus, virga
[L. tail]
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