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prehormone (medicine) and Cowper's gland (medicine)


prehormone (medicine)


prehormone


A glandular secretory product, having little or no inherent biological potency, that is converted peripherally to an active hormone.

Compare: prohormone.


Cowper's gland (medicine)


Cowper's gland -->
bulbourethral gland


One of two small compound racemose glands, that produce a mucoid secretion, lying side by side along the membranous urethra just above the bulb of the corpus spongiosum; they discharge through a small duct into the spongy portion of the urethra.

Synonym: glandula bulbourethralis, Cowper's gland, Mery's gland.