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The male accessory glands are the ampullary gland, seminal vesicle, prostate, bulbourethral gland, and urethral gland. [5]The products of these glands serve to nourish and activate the spermatozoa, to clear the urethral tract prior to ejaculation, serve as the vehicle of transport of the spermatozoa in the female tract, and to plug the female tract after placement of spermatozoa to help ensure ...
Three accessory glands provide fluids that lubricate the duct system and nourish the sperm cells. Seminal vesicles : two glands behind the bladder that secrete many of the semen's components. Prostate gland : a gland located below the bladder that produces seminal fluid and helps regulate urine flow.
The internal genitalia consist of two accessory ducts: mesonephric ducts (male) and paramesonephric ducts (female). The mesonephric system is the precursor to the male genitalia and the paramesonephric to the female reproductive system. [8] As development proceeds, one of the pairs of ducts develops while the other regresses.
The ducts pass backward lateral to the mesonephric ducts, but toward the posterior end of the embryo they cross to the medial side of these ducts, and thus come to lie side by side between and behind the latter—the four ducts forming what is termed the common genital cord [citation needed], to distinguish it from the genital cords of the ...
The vas deferens (pl.: vasa deferentia), ductus deferens (pl.: ductūs deferentes), or sperm duct is part of the male reproductive system of many vertebrates. In mammals, spermatozoa are produced in the seminiferous tubules and flow into the epididymal duct. The end of the epididymis is connected to the vas deferens.
The mesonephric duct, also known as the Wolffian duct, archinephric duct, Leydig's duct or nephric duct, is a paired organ that develops in the early stages of embryonic development in humans and other mammals. It is an important structure that plays a critical role in the formation of male reproductive organs.
m, m. Right and left Müllerian ducts uniting together and running with the Wolffian ducts in gc, the genital cord: m. Müllerian duct, the upper part of which remains as the hydatid of Morgagni; the lower part, represented by a dotted line descending to the prostatic utricle, constitutes the occasionally existing cornu and tube of the uterus ...
Ciaccio's glands, accessory lacrimal glands: eye: tears: 8 Cobelli's glands: esophagus, just above the cardia, in the mucosa: mucous 9 Ebner's glands: tongue: serous: 10 Eccrine sweat glands: skin: coiled tubular 11 Esophageal glands: esophagus: mucous racemose 12 Exocrine pancreas: pancreas: serous tubulo-acinar 13 Gastric chief cell, Wasmann ...