Image from page 395 of "Elements of the comparative anatomy of vertebrates" (1897) (20160423914)
Summary
Title: Elements of the comparative anatomy of vertebrates
Identifier: cu31924056985983
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wiedersheim, Robert, 1848-1923; Parker, William Newton, 1857-1923
Subjects: Anatomy, Comparative
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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376 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY ever {e.g., Monotremes, most Edentates, Elephant), the testes remain permanently within the abdomen. The testes ai-e smooth, and somewhat oval in form, and their relative size varies in different Mammals; they are covered by a
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ra:' Fig. 299.—Male Urinogenital Appakatus of the Hedgehog (Erhmam). /V, kidney; Ur, ureters; B, urinary bladder; Pm, membranous portion of urinogenital tube ; Gpc, corpus cavernosum ; Pp, prepuce ; Op, glans penis ; PD, preputial glands ; Gi1, Cowper'a glands ; Pr, Pr^, the different lolies of the prostate ; Sh, vesicula seminalis ; ffo, testis ; Ep, epididymis ; Vd, VcP^ vas deferens. fibrous investment (Fig. 300), from which processes (trabeculae) usually extend inwards. Thus the seminal tubules become separated into definite lobed masses, and a sort of lattice-work is also formed (corpus Highmoi'i), through which the elements of the vasa efferentia pass to the ejndidymis. In the latter the