Cowper's Gland (Noun)
Meaning
Either of two glands that discharge a component of seminal fluid into the urethra; homologous to Bartholin's gland in the female.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- Cowper's gland produces pre-seminal fluid that is clear and slippery in nature.
- During the early stages of a boy's puberty, Cowper's gland is fully formed but the other structures like vas deferens is small in size.
- Prostatic, Cowper's, and Littre's glands discharge fluid from various structures.
- An inability of the duct of the Cowper's gland to properly protrude from the skin after healing of an injured tissue often leaves them duct-blocked or mis-attached at locations nearby or their main, direct anatomical entrance within.
- Lumps around or associated with a swelling over one's cowper's gland does give false fears in first sexual health discoveries on early life discoveries, even affecting boys at puberty, based on symptoms common but generally untrue concerning urinary or sexual transmissions including masturbation.