Cowper's gland

[ kou-perz, koo- ]

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noun

Anatomy, Zoology.

either of two small glands that secrete a mucous substance into the male urethra.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cowper's gland¹

1730–40; named after William Cowper (1666–1709), English anatomist, who discovered them

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Preejaculate—which pretty much everyone calls precum—is the lubricative secretion that is emitted, involuntarily, from the Cowper’s gland in the penis during sexual arousal.

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These pioneering sex researchers “warned of the possibility of pregnancy from withdrawal due to the presence of sperm in secretions of the Cowper’s gland”—a statement that “was apparently not evidence-based but subsequently repeated,” the authors write.

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Cowper's Gland, which secretes a liquid which makes the urethra alkaline.

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Cowper Cowper's glands

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