pudendal

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  1. Of or pertaining to the pudendum; connected with or relating to the pudenda; pudic: as, the pudendal vessels, nerves, etc.
  2. Common pudendal nerve. Same as pudic nerve (which see, under pudic).
  3. Inferior pudendalnerve a branch of the small sciatic distributed to the skin of the upper and back part of the thigh and of the outer surface of the scrotum or of the labium.
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  • Tactile stimulation of the penile shaft activates parasympathetic fibers, which travel in the pudendal nerve and function through the spinal reflex arc from S2 to S4. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • In addition, the ischiocavernosus and bulbospongiosus striated muscles, which located at the penile crus, are innervated by the motor pudendal nerve. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Therefore, erection is a neurovascular event, and any disease or dysfunction affecting the brain, spinal cord, or cavernous and pudendal nerves can induce ED. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • In this study, most of the participants had abnormal pudendal nerve cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (PEPs). —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • The pudendal nerve and its terminal branch (dorsal nerve of the penis) provide somatosensory innervation to the genitalia in men. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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