Talk:Dartos fascia

muscle v fascia
Contraction of the dartos muscle actually causes wrinkling of the scrotal skin, since the dartos muscle is essentially a fascial layer directly underneath the skin composed predominantly of muscle fibers which thickens the integumentary layer with contraction. This thickening of the skin correlates with a lower surface area and preservation of heat.

This article refers to the dartos as both a unit of smooth muscle and as fascia, a continuation of Scarpa's fascia. It would be beneficial for students/readers to have this clarified and perhaps see the differences where the dartos is a fascial layer, and where it is smooth muscle.Xflipx (talk) 20:27, 27 September 2012 (UTC)


 * presently the only discussion of muscular action is scrotal elevation. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1034.x/pdf from a 90s urology paper mentions that most of the muscle is in the prepuce though. This seems worth citing to add more of a focus on that. ScratchMarshall (talk) 06:46, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

The female human being (girl or woman) and her dartos
The labia majora (...) Underlying the skin is a poorly developed muscle layer: the tunica dartos labialis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/labia-majora 2003:E8:5F15:9229:1CD:7906:2BAB:7F9A (talk) 21:27, 1 January 2020 (UTC)