Editing Genitourinary system (section)

{{Short description|Organ system of the genitals and the urinary tract}}
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| Name        = Genitourinary system
| Latin       = apparatus urogenitalis, systema urogenitale
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| Caption     = Some components of the female and male genitourinary system
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The '''genitourinary system''', or '''urogenital system''', are the [[sex organs]] of the [[reproductive system]] and the [[organ (biology)|organs]] of the [[urinary system]].<ref>{{DorlandsDict|eight/000105290|genitourinary system}}</ref> These are grouped together because of their proximity to each other, [[Development of the urinary and reproductive organs|their common embryological origin]] and the use of common pathways. Because of this, the systems are sometimes imaged together.<ref name="urlUC Davis Department of Radiology - Genitourinary Radiology">{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/radiology/specialties/genitourinary.html |title=UC Davis Department of Radiology - Genitourinary Radiology |access-date=2010-03-16}}</ref> In [[Placentalia|placental mammals]] (including humans), the male [[urethra]] goes through and opens into the [[penis]] while the female urethra and [[vagina]] empty through the [[vulva]].<ref name="Wake1992">{{cite book|author=Marvalee H. Wake|title=Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKlWjdOkiMwC&pg=PA583|access-date=6 May 2013|date=15 September 1992|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-87013-7|page=583}}</ref> 

The term "apparatus urogenitalis" was used in ''[[Nomina Anatomica]]'' (under [[splanchnologia]]) but is not used in the current ''[[Terminologia Anatomica]]''.