Editing Skene's gland (section)

==History==
While the glands were first described in 1672 by [[Regnier de Graaf|Reinier de Graaf]] and by the French [[surgeon]] [[Alphonse Guérin]] (1816–1895),<ref>{{cite book |title=De Mulierum Organis Generationi Inservientibus |first=Regnier |last=de Graaf |author-link=Regnier de Graaf |language=la |url=https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_34292 |year=1672 |location=Leiden}}</ref> they were named after the Scottish [[gynaecologist]] [[Alexander Skene]], who wrote about it in [[Western medicine|Western medical]] literature in 1880.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Skene |first=Alexander J. C. |author-link=Alexander Skene |date=April 1880 |title=The anatomy and pathology of two important glands of the female urethra |url=https://archive.org/details/101316080.nlm.nih.gov |journal=The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children |volume=13 |pages=265–70}}</ref><ref>{{WhoNamedIt|synd|2038|Skene's glands}}</ref><ref>{{WhoNamedIt|synd|2037|Skene's ducts}}</ref> In 2002,<ref name="Hornstein 2013 p.">{{cite book | last1=Hornstein | first1=Theresa | last2=Schwerin | first2=Jeri Lynn | title=Biology of women | publisher=Delmar, Cengage Learning | location=Clifton Park, NY | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-285-40102-7 | oclc=911037670 | page=61 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibgKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA61 | access-date=29 April 2021 | archive-date=15 March 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315172007/https://books.google.com/books?id=ibgKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA61 | url-status=live }}</ref> the term ''female prostate'' as a second term after ''paraurethral gland'' was added in ''[[Terminologia Histologica]]'' by the [[Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology]]. The 2008 edition notes that the term was introduced "because of the morphological and immunological significance of the structure".<ref name="FICAT">{{cite book|title=Terminologia Histologica: International Terms for Human Cytology and Histology|publisher=[[Lippincott Williams & Wilkins]]|isbn=978-0781766104|year=2008|page=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rl1PAQAAIAAJ|access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=15 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315172007/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rl1PAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>