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Erectile tissue

Erectile tissue

a tissue with numerous vascular spaces that may become engorged with blood.

Synonym: cavernous tissue.


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... suggestion about exercise won't work, because there is no real muscle tissue in a penis - it's mostly a weird type of epithelium called erectile tissue.

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