Royal Army Medical Corps training pamphlet / War Office.

Date:
1944
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Credit: Royal Army Medical Corps training pamphlet / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from Fig. 23, the channel from the testicle on each side joins the urethra just outside the bladder, where the urethra goes through the prostate gland. Fluid from the testicles, when mixed with the contents of the prostate and seminal vesicles, forms the semen (Latin, seed). On the average the length of the urethra from the bladder to its orifice is 8} in. It passes out from the bladder through the prostate in a downward direction and then curves forward aN ees | | a) ett SPINAL ERNE) | CANAL WI) ABDOMINAL CAVITY SQ. CONTAINING BOWEL BLADDER : A SYMPHYSIS PUBIS Las ? PN (CaN oa SOE FS} SEMIN PROSTATE Ic Si A ———S, iy STF i | Ave GLAND des NS NS Is VESICLES S 4 iY, Sus . URETHRA 2D LR RECTUM GEN ae PHINCTE SPONGY SUZNENEZS/ SPHINCTER TISSUE OF EB 2S PENIS - ; oo ANUS SCROTUM H Fic. 24.—VERTICAL SECTION THROUGH THE BODY, SHOWING THE BLADDER, THE PROSTATE GLAND, THE URETHRA AND PART OF THE RECTUM. under the junction of the two innominate bones (symphysis pubis). The rectum lies behind it as it goes through the pro- state. In passing a catheter into the bladder, or the nozzle of an enema syringe into the rectum, it is important to know the positions of the various parts. Fig. 24 shows them in vertical section. The part of the male urethra situated outside the body is called the penis. In this part of its course the urethral tube bse