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We are taught the urethra has 4 parts the pre-prostatic part being missed out herre so I will add it in.
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I think the "make sure to clean the urethra toy" needs to be made NPOV; make it say something like "health professionals advise people to clean urethra toys", instead of reading like a sex ed brochure.
Wheres the fourth pre prostatic part of the uretha?
Why does someone keep deleting the fat that there are 4 parts of the male urethra?
I'm not sure why the article states the following:
"The urethra has an excretory function in both genders to pass urine to the outside"
While I understand the underlying message of what is being conveyed, this statement is technically incorrect; the urethra per se has no excretory function, any more than the esophagus has a digestive function or the dura a nervous function. Could I suggest something like:
"The urethra augments kidney excretory function by allowing urine to pass from storage in the bladder to outside"
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Mcanty 17:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
also a reproductive function in the male
Where did they ever come up with this brilliant body part saving design?! I would have never thought of it myself. There should be a link to a separate article about body parts that can do multiple functions, like the nose: smell + breathe, I suppose, etc. ... and how they got that way. Jidanni 04:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Why isnt there a male anotomy section if there is a female there should be a males!!!-- 71.233.119.59 ( talk) 01:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)Me
Just wanted to open a discussion about the best term to use for this section of the urethra. I have always used the term pre-prostatic and created the separate article on it under that name ( and have now redirected intramural to there too). I conducted a very quick and unscientific search on google and found that the name seems to be used roughly equally between the two terms. Just interested in a discussion on this as it has been changed to intramural on this page, but there seems to be no particular reason for this, especially if the terms are used interchangeably. I have no great problem with it being changed, but maybe it would be nice to be consistent and have a good reason for consistency. Astrojon ( talk) 21:50, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Like what if you cuddle naked afterwards? Or have oral if you know you have no diseases?
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Urethra's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "PerrinWursig2009":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:49, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
I think it should be noted in the article that the scientists managed to grow urethra into laboratory and they successfully implanted them into patient's bodies. BBC, 8 March 2011 - Time.com, March 08, 2011. — Ark25 ( talk) 14:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
This NCBI article ( Histology, Male Urethra), updated July 2020 as of this writing, may potentially supersede or augment some info in this wiki article. See the "Microscopy Light" section on proximal and distal epithelial types, most notably the distal type. I do not have access to the sources cited for male and female urethra epithelia cited, so I cannot effectively check this out myself. The NCBI article is fairly brief, so this could be a case of different levels of detail--perhaps someone can figure this out! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GottaHaveThatXylem ( talk • contribs) 20:00, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
It is not 18-20 cm it varies a lot more, and it varies even in the same individual, because during erection it can be up to double the length. This is important because medical equipment is based on this alleged size, but it is easily disproven entirely if you look at penis size variation, men with longer penises have longer urethra, and penises varies a lot more than 2 cm, so obviously the variation is much larger. it is in fact meaningless to talk about a fixed length when the penis in an individual varies a lot depending on factors as temperaturer and sexual excitement. 212.97.249.91 ( talk) 23:50, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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We are taught the urethra has 4 parts the pre-prostatic part being missed out herre so I will add it in.
---
I think the "make sure to clean the urethra toy" needs to be made NPOV; make it say something like "health professionals advise people to clean urethra toys", instead of reading like a sex ed brochure.
Wheres the fourth pre prostatic part of the uretha?
Why does someone keep deleting the fat that there are 4 parts of the male urethra?
I'm not sure why the article states the following:
"The urethra has an excretory function in both genders to pass urine to the outside"
While I understand the underlying message of what is being conveyed, this statement is technically incorrect; the urethra per se has no excretory function, any more than the esophagus has a digestive function or the dura a nervous function. Could I suggest something like:
"The urethra augments kidney excretory function by allowing urine to pass from storage in the bladder to outside"
??
Mcanty 17:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
also a reproductive function in the male
Where did they ever come up with this brilliant body part saving design?! I would have never thought of it myself. There should be a link to a separate article about body parts that can do multiple functions, like the nose: smell + breathe, I suppose, etc. ... and how they got that way. Jidanni 04:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Why isnt there a male anotomy section if there is a female there should be a males!!!-- 71.233.119.59 ( talk) 01:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)Me
Just wanted to open a discussion about the best term to use for this section of the urethra. I have always used the term pre-prostatic and created the separate article on it under that name ( and have now redirected intramural to there too). I conducted a very quick and unscientific search on google and found that the name seems to be used roughly equally between the two terms. Just interested in a discussion on this as it has been changed to intramural on this page, but there seems to be no particular reason for this, especially if the terms are used interchangeably. I have no great problem with it being changed, but maybe it would be nice to be consistent and have a good reason for consistency. Astrojon ( talk) 21:50, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Like what if you cuddle naked afterwards? Or have oral if you know you have no diseases?
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Urethra's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "PerrinWursig2009":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:49, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
I think it should be noted in the article that the scientists managed to grow urethra into laboratory and they successfully implanted them into patient's bodies. BBC, 8 March 2011 - Time.com, March 08, 2011. — Ark25 ( talk) 14:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
This NCBI article ( Histology, Male Urethra), updated July 2020 as of this writing, may potentially supersede or augment some info in this wiki article. See the "Microscopy Light" section on proximal and distal epithelial types, most notably the distal type. I do not have access to the sources cited for male and female urethra epithelia cited, so I cannot effectively check this out myself. The NCBI article is fairly brief, so this could be a case of different levels of detail--perhaps someone can figure this out! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GottaHaveThatXylem ( talk • contribs) 20:00, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
It is not 18-20 cm it varies a lot more, and it varies even in the same individual, because during erection it can be up to double the length. This is important because medical equipment is based on this alleged size, but it is easily disproven entirely if you look at penis size variation, men with longer penises have longer urethra, and penises varies a lot more than 2 cm, so obviously the variation is much larger. it is in fact meaningless to talk about a fixed length when the penis in an individual varies a lot depending on factors as temperaturer and sexual excitement. 212.97.249.91 ( talk) 23:50, 3 July 2023 (UTC)