bulbo-urethral gland

Any of the small paired racemose glands below the apex of the prostate in males, located posterolateral to the membranous portion of the urethra at the base of the penis, between the two layers of the fascia of the urogenital diaphragm, in the deep perineal pouch, and enclosed by transverse fibers of the sphincter urethrae membranaceae muscle; homologous to the greater vestibular (Bartholin's) glands in the female[MP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the bulbo-urethral gland is

Any of the small paired racemose glands below the apex of the prostate in males, located posterolateral to the membranous portion of the urethra at the base of the penis, between the two layers of the fascia of the urogenital diaphragm, in the deep perineal pouch, and enclosed by transverse fibers of the sphincter urethrae membranaceae muscle; homologous to the greater vestibular (Bartholin's) glands in the female[MP]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the bulbo-urethral gland is

It sits within the urinary and reproductive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the bulbo-urethral gland connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of exocrine system and male urethra.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the bulbo-urethral gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as Cowper's gland, Cowper's glands, Mery's gland, Méry gland, bulbourethral gland and glandula bulbourethralis, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002366, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: exocrine system and male urethra.
• A kind of: male accessory sex gland, male urethral gland, mucous gland and seminal fluid secreting gland.
• contributes to morphology of: internal male genitalia.
• produces: bulbourethral gland secretion.
• contains: duct of bulbourethral gland.

Questions

Where is the bulbo-urethral gland?

It sits within the urinary and reproductive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the bulbo-urethral gland connect to?

Part of: exocrine system and male urethra.

Is the bulbo-urethral gland the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.