Priapism--the occasional surgical emergency: a case report.

Priapism is abnormally prolonged and painful erection of the penis, and in this state the patient will have considerable difficulty to pass urine. The erect penis exhibits engorgement of the corpus cavernosum. The corpus spongiosum is not turgid. The word 'priapism 'gets its derivation from Greek mythology. The goddess of sexual love, Aphrodite, produced a son whom she named Priapus. The occurrence of priapism commonly in healthy males has some intangible relation to exessive sexual stimulation of the male organ of some sort or other.