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Preputial Glands

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Preputial Glands 

the sebaceous glands of the inner surface of the prepuce of the penis in mammals and humans; their functional importance has not been precisely established. In Artiodactyla they develop in an unpaired preputial pouch, and in some Rodentia they function as scent glands in intraspecific and sexual relations.



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Other investigations employed other tissues such as the male preputial glands (David et al.
The relative weights of the testes and preputial glands were significantly increased and that of the seminal vesicles was significantly decreased in test males.
1932, 1933a, 1933b), the preputial glands (Bulbring and Burn 1935; Korenchevsky 1932; Korenchevsky et al.
 
 
 
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