a. Anat. [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, 36. The glands representing the Cowperian glands of the male, and known in the female as the glands of Bartholini or Duverney.
So Cowperitis [see -ITIS], inflammation of Cowper’s glands.
1874. Van Buren, Dis. Genit. Org., 77. Cowperitis … seems to occur only in connection with urethral inflammation.
