[sci.med] Clitoris

werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (10/14/86)

> > Tell me why men have nipples....
> 
> For the same reason that women have clitorises (clitori?).
> -- 
>      Jerry Natowitz (HASA - A division)

	The above allows me to related the following quote by Embryologist
I. Pesetsky:
	"There are those who say that the Clitoris is a vestigial penis,
but I can assure you as an anatomist, rather that the penis is a
hypertrophied clitoris."

-- 
			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)
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