Prostatic Utricle

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The prostatic utricle is a small indentation located in the prostatic urethra, at the apex of the urethral crest, on the seminal colliculus (verumontanum), laterally flanked by openings of the ejaculatory ducts. It is also known as the vagina masculina or (in older literature) vesicula prostatica. It is often described as "blind," meaning that it is a duct that does not lead to any other structures. It can sometimes be enlarged. It may serve no function. However, in "A Practical treatise on sexual disorders of the male and female" 3rd ed., by Robert William Taylor, it states "in coitus it so contracts that it draws upon the openings of the ejaculatory ducts, and thus renders them so patulous that the semen readily passes through.