Urethral artery

Urethral artery
Diagram of the arteries of the penis.
Details
Source	internal pudendal artery or perineal artery
Supplies	membranous urethra, glans penis
Identifiers
Latin	arteria urethralis
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12156483
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.

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