Cowperian, a. Anat.
(kuːpɪərɪən)
[f. the name Cowper + -ian.]
Cowperian glands: a pair of glands situated beneath, and with ducts opening into, the urethra in male Mammalia; discovered by the anatomist William Cowper (1666–1709). Also called Cowper's glands.
| 1738 Med. Ess. & Observ. (ed. 2) IV. 496 He proves the Gonorrhœa to affect..Cowper's and Littré's Glands. 1797 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 338, I do not recollect to have seen Cowper's glands diseased. 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life (ed. 2) 36 The glands representing the Cowperian glands of the male, and known in the female as the glands of Bartholini or Duverney. |
So Cowpeˈritis [see -itis], inflammation of Cowper's glands.
| 1874 Van Buren Dis. Genit. Org. 77 Cowperitis seems to occur only in connection with urethral inflammation. |