Monday, June 8, 2009

The female prostate

As mentioned in passing in an earlier post some women have a vestigial prostate (and some men a vestigial uterus: the utriculum). The organ is more known as Skene's or the paraurethral gland. Oddly enough it is semifunctional in some cases and may eject a fluid and be stimulated. A popular overview was recently published in the may 30 issue of New Scientist.

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