Urinary bladder

❑In infants and children the bladder is an abdominal

organ ,
❑It starts to enter the greater pelvis at about 6 years
and becomes a pelvic organ until after puberty.
 urogenital sinus
urorectal septum
cloaca

Primitive rectum

•Between the two, the tip of the urorectal septum forms the perineal body.
 urogenital membrane

Cloacal urorectal septum

Membrane
anal
membrane
 Male Urethra
❑In a male the prostate and membranous part of the urethra arise from the pelvic part
of the definitive UGS while the spongy urethra comes from the phallic part of definitive
UGS.
❑The terminal part –which lies in glans penis-is derived from surface ectoderm
❑The epithelium of the prostatic urethra forms the prostate gland in male.