Editing Seminal vesicles (section)

==History==
The action of the seminal vesicles has been described as early the second century AD by [[Galen]], as "glandular bodies" that secrete substances alongside semen during reproduction.<ref name=Marx2009>{{cite journal |last1=Josef Marx |first1=Franz |last2=Karenberg |first2=Axel |title=History of the Term Prostate |journal=The Prostate |date=1 February 2009 |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=208–213 |doi=10.1002/pros.20871 |pmid=18942121 |s2cid=44922919 |quote=The humor produced in those glandular bodies is poured into the urinary passage in the male along with semen and its uses are to excite to the sexual act, to make coitus pleasurable, and to moisten the urinary passageway.}}</ref> By the time of [[Herophilos|Herophilus]] the presence of the glands and associated ducts had been described.<ref name="Marx2009" /> Around the time of the early 17th century the word used to describe the vesicles, parastatai, eventually and unambiguously was used to refer to the prostate gland, rather than the vesicles.<ref name="Marx2009" /> The first time the prostate was portrayed in an individual drawing was by Reiner De Graaf in 1678.<ref name="Marx2009" />

The first described use of laparoscopic surgery on the vesicles was described in 1993; this is now the preferred approach because of decreased pain, complications, and a shorter hospital stay.<ref name="Smiths2019" />