The pathology and treatment of sexual impotence / by Victor G. Vecki.

  • Victor G. Vecki von Gyurkovechky
Date:
1901
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Credit: The pathology and treatment of sexual impotence / by Victor G. Vecki. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cubic centimeters. Its upper end is globular in form and tapers off to pass into the vas deferens. The epididymis is also invested with a tough albuginea, which has the same structure as the albuginea of the testicle, but is not so thick, its thickness being only 0.04 millimeter. The inner surface of the albuginea of the epididymis also sends off septa of connective tissue into the parenchyma, dividing it into lobules, though superficially only. The unfolded vas epididymis has a length of about six meters, with a diameter of about 0.44 millimeter, and gradually dilates as it approaches the vas defer- ens. Besides this principal duct, the epididymis contains also one to three small blind canals, the vasa aberrantia and the so-called hydatis Morgagni, which are said to be remnants of embryonic condi- tions. At the lower point of the testicle the canal of the epididymis is turned directly upward in order to reach the orificium cutaneum canalis inguinalis; it is then called the vas deferens, and, together with the vessels and nerves running in the same direction, forms the seminal cord (plexus spermaticus seu pampinif ormis). The tortuosity of the epididymis continues into the first part of the vas deferens, but the tube be- comes gradually more nearly straight, its walls at the same time increasing in thickness and extent. The total length of the seminal vessel is about fifty to sixty centimeters. According to Henlc,* the straight part is about three millimeters in diameter, *( )]>. cit., p. 382.
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