verumontanumn.
Anatomy.
(See quots. 1728, 1831.)
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Veru-montanum, in Anatomy,..a kind of little Valve, in the Place where the Ejaculatory Ducts enter the Urethra... Its use is, to prevent the Urine, in passing the Urethra, from getting in at those Ducts.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 273/1 A small oblong oval eminence..terminating forward in a point, called caruncula or verumontanum.
1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 817 The inferior median line ends posteriorly at an oblong, rounded prominence, about an inch long, called the Verumontanum (Caput Gallinaginis). This prominence is formed by the mucous membrane... Anteriorly, it becomes thin and ends in a point.
1851 S. D. Gross Pract. Treat. Dis. Bladder iii. xii. 712 The gallinaginous crest, or, as it is often denominated, the verumontanum, is liable..to inflammation and its consequences.
1860 H. Thompson Dis. Prostate (1868) 16 Some minute vessels, chiefly venous,..on either side of the verumontanum.
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