Just before each
crus of the
penis
A penis (plural ''penises'' or ''penes'' () is the primary sexual organ that male animals use to inseminate females (or hermaphrodites) during copulation. Such organs occur in many animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate, but males d ...
meets its fellow, it presents a slight enlargement, which
Georg Ludwig Kobelt named the bulb of the corpus cavernosum penis. The bulb of penis is also known as the urethral bulb.
The bulb is
homologous
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*Homology (biology), any characteristic of biological organisms that is derived from a common ancestor
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to the
vestibular bulbs in females.
Additional images
File:Gray1142.png, Male urethra.
File:Gray1158.png, Diagram of the arteries of the penis.
References
External links
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Mammal male reproductive system
Human penis anatomy
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