Urethral artery

Urethral artery
	Diagram of the arteries of the penis.
Details
Source	internal pudendal artery[1] or perineal artery
Supplies	membranous urethra, glans penis
Identifiers
Latin	arteria urethralis
TA	A12.2.15.042
FMA	20903
	Anatomical terminology;

The urethral artery arises from the internal pudendal artery a short distance in front of the artery of bulb of penis.

In the male, it runs forward and medially, pierces the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm and enters the corpus cavernosum urethræ, in which it is continued forward to the glans penis. In the female, the urethral artery serves the analogous structures. Because the female urethra is so much shorter than the male, this structure is often impossible to find on a female cadaver.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 619 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 269. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.

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[1] Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 269. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.