Cowperianadj.
/kuːpɪərɪən/ Anatomy.
Cowperian glands: a pair of glands situated beneath, and with ducts opening into, the urethra in male Mammalia; discovered by the anatomist William Cowper (1666–1709). Also called Cowper's glands.
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Cowper's glands1738
Cowperian glands1888
1738 Med. Ess. & Observ. (ed. 2) IV. 496 He proves the Gonorrhœa to affect..Cowper's and Littré's Glands.
1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xvii. 226 I do not recollect to have seen Cowper's glands diseased.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 36 The glands representing the Cowperian glands of the male, and known in the female as the glands of Bartholini or Duverney.
Derivatives
Cowpeˈritis n. [see -itis suffix] inflammation of Cowper's glands.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > disorders of other glands
mucocele1819
thymitis1848
bromidrosis1866
mammitis1872
Cowperitis1874
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thymoma1919
Simmonds' disease1922
pinealoma1923
Rathke's cleft cyst1948
polyendocrinopathy1964
1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 77 Cowperitis seems to occur only in connection with urethral inflammation.
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adj.1738