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Cowperian, a. Anat.|kuːpɪərɪən| [f. the name Cowper + -ian.] Cowperian glands: a pair of glands situated beneath, and with ducts opening into, the urethra in male Mammalia; discovered by the anatomist William Cowper (1666–1709). Also called Cowper's glands.
1738Med. Ess. & Observ. (ed. 2) IV. 496 He proves the Gonorrhœa to affect..Cowper's and Littré's Glands. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 338, I do not recollect to have seen Cowper's glands diseased. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life (ed. 2) 36 The glands representing the Cowperian glands of the male, and known in the female as the glands of Bartholini or Duverney. So Cowpeˈritis [see -itis], inflammation of Cowper's glands.
1874Van Buren Dis. Genit. Org. 77 Cowperitis seems to occur only in connection with urethral inflammation. |