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DictionarySeepenismembrum virile
pe·nis, pl. pe·nes, pe·ni·ses (pē'nis, pē'nēz, pē'nis-ez), [TA] The organ of copulation and urination in the male; formed of three columns of erectile tissue, two arranged laterally on the dorsum (corpora cavernosa penis) and one median ventrally (corpus spongiosum penis); the urethra traverses the latter; the extremity (glans penis) is formed by an expansion of the corpus spongiosum and is more or less completely covered by a free fold of skin (prepuce). Synonym(s): intromittent organ, membrum virile, phallus (2) , priapus, virga [L. tail] membrum virile A now-obsolete Latin term for penis. |