File talk:Penile-Clitoral Structure.JPG

Update Penis-Clitoris-Comparision

This picture is completely outdated: File:Penile-Clitoral Structure.JPG. It was uploaded in 2007. Heleon O'Connell had already researched and published the complete structures of the clitoris in 2005: Anatomy of the Clitoris.

In 2010, she succeeded in visualizing the clitoris of a living woman in an erect state using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) File:Clitoris 3 D - Helen O'Connell.jpg. It is therefore time to replace the outdated image of male and female erectile tissue. It only correctly shows the male parts formed by the corpus cavernosus and the corpus spongiosus, but it doesn't show those of the woman correctly. The crura and the bulb of the male are not labeled. The woman's organ is shown in a crippled form. Recent research results show that the female glans arises from the corpus spongiosus like the male glans, so both can be considered as homologous. The earlier assumption that the glans only consists of the corpus spongiosus in men, but of the corpus cavernosus in women was wrong, although the tissues of the female glans are difficult to assign to one or the other because they seem to also have characteristics of the cavernosa. There is an "infracorporeal residual spongy part" between the female glans and the bulb, which suggests the common embryonic development, as well as the visible fact that in a micropenis or in a clitoral hypertrophy, the glans develops in the same way as in a normal penis, except that it remains small. I have created a new illustration for the comparison according to the latest state of knowledge and uploaded an English labeled version and an unlabeled version for translations. File:Clitoris Penis Homology 1.png and File:Clitoris Penis Homology - blanc.png. Sciencia58 (留言) 10:26, 24 March 2024 (UTC)