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of the tunica albuginea are more delicate, nearly uniform in size, and the meshes between them smaller than in the corpora cavernosa penis: their long diameters, for the most part, corresponding with that of the
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constricting the erection veins of the penis, preventing blood from leaving and thus sustaining the erect state.
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