Bulbospongiosus muscle

Bulbospongiosus muscle

Infobox Muscle
Name = Bulbospongiosus muscle
Latin = musculus bulbospongiosus
GraySubject = 120
GrayPage = 428


Caption = Muscles of the female perineum. (Bulbocavernosus visible at upper right.)


Caption2 = Muscles of male perineum. (Bulbocavernosus visible at upper left.)
Origin = Median raphé
Insertion =
Blood = Perineal artery
Nerve = pudendal nerve
Action = in males, empties the urethra; in females, clenches the vagina
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Bulbospongiosus (bulbocavernous in older texts) is one of the superficial muscles of the perineum. It has a slightly different origin, insertion and function in males and females. In males, it covers the bulb of the penis. In females, it covers the vestibular bulb.

In both sexes, it is innervated by the deep/muscular branch of the perineal nerve, which is a branch of the pudendal nerve.

Action

In males it contributes to erection, ejaculation, and the feelings of orgasm. In females it contributes to erection and the feelings of orgasm, and closes the vagina.

This muscle serves to empty the canal of the urethra, after the bladder has expelled its contents; during the greater part of the act of micturition its fibers are relaxed, and it only comes into action at the end of the process.

The middle fibers are supposed by Krause to assist in the erection of the corpus cavernosum urethræ, by compressing the erectile tissue of the bulb.

The anterior fibers, according to Tyrrel, also contribute to the erection of the penis by compressing the deep dorsal vein of the penis as they are inserted into, and continuous with, the fascia of the penis.

Location

The bulbospongiosus is placed in the middle line of the perineum, in front of the anus. It consists of two symmetrical parts, united along the median line by a tendinous raphé.

It arises from the central tendinous point of the perineum and from the median raphé in front.

Fibers

Its fibers diverge like the barbs of a quill-pen; the most posterior form a thin layer, which is lost on the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm; the middle fibers encircle the bulb and adjacent parts, of the corpus cavernosum urethræ, and join with the fibers of the opposite side, on the upper part of the corpus cavernosum urethræ, in a strong aponeurosis; the anterior fibers, spread out over the side of the corpus cavernosum penis, to be inserted partly into that body, anterior to the Ischiocavernosus, occasionally extending to the pubis, and partly ending in a tendinous expansion which covers the dorsal vessels of the penis.

The latter fibers are best seen by dividing the muscle longitudinally, and reflecting it from the surface of the corpus cavernosum urethræ.


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External links

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* - "The Female Perineum: Muscles of the Superficial Perineal Pouch"
* - "Muscles of the male superficial perineal pouch. "
* - "The urinary bladder and the urethra as seen in a frontal section of the female pelvis."
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