Anat. [f. L. verū spit + montānum, neut. of montānus hilly.] (See quots. 1728 and 1831.)
1728. Chambers, Cycl., Veru-montanum, in Anatomy,… a kind of little Valve, in the Place where the Ejaculatory Ducts enter the Urethra…. Its use is, to prevent the Urine, in passing the Urethra, from getting in at those Ducts.
1771. Encycl. Brit., I. 273/1. A small oblong oval eminence … terminating forward in a point, called caruncula or verumontanum.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 817. The inferior median line ends posteriorly at an oblong, rounded prominence, about an inch long, called the Verumontanum (Caput Gallinaginis). This prominence is formed by the mucous membrane…. Anteriorly, it becomes thin and ends in a point.
1860. Sir H. Thompson, Dis. of Prostate (1868), 16. Some minute vessels, chiefly venous,… on either side of the verumontanum.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, etc., 557. The sinus in front of the verumontanum.
