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Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919, ed Keen, William W. (William Williams), b. 1837
Subjects: Human anatomy Anatomy
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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les; 11, Cow-pers glands, partly embraced by the lower fasciculus of theCompressor urethrce muscle; 12, the internal pudic artery,passing posteriorly to the crus of the Compressor urethras;13, the artery of the bulb; 14, the artery of the corpus caver-nosum; 15, the arteria dorsalis penis (Wilson).) 1018 SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE PERINEUM. rapli£ which extends between the coccyx and the margin of the anus. The middlefibres, which form the larger portion of the muscle, are inserted into the side of therectum, blending with the fibres of the Sphincter muscles; lastly, the anterior fibres,the longest, descend upon the side of the prostate gland to unite beneath it with themuscle of the opposite side, blending with the fibres of the External sphincter andTransversus perinsei muscles at the tendinous centre of the perineum. The anterior portion is occasionally separated from the rest of the muscle byareolar tissue. From this circumstance, as well as from its peculiar relation with Fig. 679.
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