Urethral artery

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Artery: Urethral artery

Diagram of the arteries of the penis.
Latin	arteria urethralis
Gray's	subject #155 619
Supplies	membranous urethra, glans penis
Source	internal pudendal artery or perineal artery
Dorlands / Elsevier	a_61/12156483

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

The urethral artery arises a short distance in front of the artery of the urethral bulb.

It runs forward and medialward, pierces the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm and enters the corpus cavernosum urethræ, in which it is continued forward to the glans penis.

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Urethral+artery at eMedicine Dictionary

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Arteries of torso - abdomen

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