Clitoris
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Shown on the female body.
- What it is
- Erectile organ made of a small glans under its hood, a body that bends back under the pubic symphysis, and two crura that run along the ischiopubic rami (the vestibular bulbs lie alongside the vestibule).
- Function
- Densely innervated organ whose only known role is sexual sensation; it engorges with blood during arousal.
- Size
- Glans about 5 mm; body plus crura about 9–11 cm in total.
- Clinical note
- It is the counterpart of the penis (glans and corpora cavernosa); most of it lies hidden beneath the skin.