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| a male sexual organ consisting of the intenal root and the external shaft and glans |
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| the portion of the penis that extends internally into the pelvic cavity |
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| the length of the penis beween the glans and the body |
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| the head of the penis; it is richly endowed with nerve endings |
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| the sructures in the shaft of the penis that engorge with blood during sexual arousal |
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| a cylinder that forms a bulb at the base of the penis, extendds up into the penile shaft, and forms the penile glans |
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| a convering of skin over the penile glans |
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| the rim of the penile glans |
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| a highly sensitive thin strip of skin that connects the glans to the shaft on the underside of the penis |
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| the puch of skin of the external male genitals that encloses the testes |
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| male gonad inside the scrotum that produces sperm and sex hormones |
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| a cord attached to the testis that contains the vas deferens, blood vessels, nerves, and cremasteric muscle fibers |
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| thin, coiled structures in the testes in which sperm are produced |
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| cells located between the seminiferous tubules that are the major source of androgen in males |
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| the structure along the back of each testis in which sperm maturation occurs |
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| a perm-carrying tube that begins at the testis and ends at the urethra |
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| male sterilization procedure that involves removing a section from each vas deferens |
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| two short ducts located within the prostate gland |
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| the tube through which urine passes from the bladder to the outside of the body |
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| small glands adjacent to the terminals of the vas deferens that secrete an alkaline fluid (conducive to sperm motility) that constitutes the greatest portion of the volum of seminal fluid released during ejaculation |
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| a gland located at the base of the bladder that produces about 30% of the seminal fluid released during ejaculation |
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| two pea-sized glands located alongside the base of the urethra in the male that secrete an alkaline fluid during sexual arousal |
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| a viscous fluid ejaculated through the penis tat contains sperm and fluids from the prostate, seminal vesicles, and cowper's glands |
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| the process by which the penis or clitoris engorges with blood and increases in size |
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| the process by which semen is expelled from the body through the penis |
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| the first stage of male orgasm, in which the seminal fluid is gathered in the urethral bulb. |
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| the second stage of male orgasm, druing which the semen is expelled from th penis by muscular contractions |
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| the process by which semen is expelled into the bladder instead of out of the penis |
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| involuntary ejaculation dring sleep; also known as a wet dream |
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| genital retraction syndrome (GRS) |
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| unusual, culture-bound phenomenon in which a male believes his penis is shrinking and retracting into his body |
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| a widely used term for the genital retraction syndrome |
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| surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis |
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| a condition characterized by an extremely tight penile foreskin |
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| the medical specialty dealing with reproductive health and genital diseases of th male and urinary tract diseases in both sexes |
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| a cheesy substance of glandular secretions and skin cells that sometimes accumulates under th foreskin of the penis or hood of the clitoriss |
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