corpus cavernosum

/ ˌkævəˈnəʊsəm /

noun

New Latin, literally: cavernous body

At length the corpus cavernosum urethr became soft, and in another day or two the whole subsided.

The thick-walled urethra lies ventral to the curved corpus cavernosum.

A thinner-walled blood-vessel lies dorsal to the corpus cavernosum.

It has been called the corpus cavernosum nympharum, and is capable of considerable increase in size when distended with blood.

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