In male mammals, excretory and reproductive systems share the urethra
What is Urethra?
- The word "urethra" derives from the Ancient Greek word "uro," which refers to urination. Hippocrates first described the urethral structure.
- However, confusingly, it was referred to as the "ureter" at the time.
- For more than a thousand years, the names "ureter" and "urethra" have been interchangeably used to refer to each other.
- The words for what are now known as the ureter and urethra in modern English were first used to specifically and consistently refer to them by anatomists like Bartolomeo Eustacchio and Jacques Dubois in the 1550s.
- Galen first described the urinary system and its role in removing urine from the kidneys in the second century AD.
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