Encyclopedia entry
Ischiocavernosus
Abstract
This muscle is obviously larger in the male. Some of the more anterior fiber bundles may extend to the dorsal surface of the penis and form a pubocavernosus (or levator penis) muscle. A compressor venae dorsalis has been described, composed of a few fascicles that arise from the sheath of the corpus cavernosum urethrae and from the median raphe, and unite with those of the opposite side by a tendon that passes over the dorsal vein.
This muscle is obviously larger in the male. Some of the more anterior fiber bundles may extend to the dorsal surface of the penis and form a pubocavernosus (or levator penis) muscle.
A compressor venae dorsalis has been described, composed of a few fascicles that arise from the sheath of the corpus cavernosum urethrae and from the median raphe, and unite with those of the opposite side by a tendon that passes over the dorsal vein.
Riferimenti dell’opera originale
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- Houston, -. (1831) Two newly-discovered muscles for compressing the dorsal vein of the penis of man and other animals. Am. J. Med. Sci. 8:477-478.
- Macalister, A. (1875) Observations on muscular anomalies in the human anatomy. Third series with a catalogue of the principal muscular variations hitherto published. Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. Sci. 25:1-130.
Anatomical classification
- Systems:
- Muscular system
Content provenance
Translation
Italian translation of «Ischiocavernosus — Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System» by Ronald A. Bergman, Adel K. Afifi, Ryosuke Miyauchi. Source: https://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/MuscularSystem/Text/I/25Ischiocavernosus.shtml Original work distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it). Translation by Redazione AIVA. Changes from the original: Traduzione italiana del testo originale inglese, che resta consultabile nella versione inglese di questa pagina. Il contenuto è stato riorganizzato nel formato scheda del portale (sintesi, testo, riferimenti) senza modificarne le affermazioni. Le figure non sono state copiate: sono collegate alla pagina d’origine. This publication is not approved or endorsed by the authors of the original work.
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