Erectors of the penis or Ischiocavernous

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Title:	Erectors of the penis or Ischiocavernous
Original Title:	Erectors de la Verge
Volume and Page:	Vol. 5 (1755), p. 902
Author:	Pierre Tarin (biography)
Translator:	Jeremy Caradonna [University of Victoria]
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URL:	http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.637
Citation (MLA):	Tarin, Pierre. "Erectors of the penis or Ischiocavernous." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Jeremy Caradonna. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.637>. Trans. of "Erectors de la Verge," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755.
Citation (Chicago):	Tarin, Pierre. "Erectors of the penis or Ischiocavernous." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Jeremy Caradonna. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.637 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Erectors de la Verge," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:902 (Paris, 1755).

Erectors (erecteurs) of the penis (verge) or ischiocavernous, are two muscles, fleshy in their origin, which come from the tuberosity of the ischium, above the cavernous bodies of the penis; these muscles attach to the thick membranes of the cavernous bodies. See Cavernous and Muscle.