09 Male Reproductive System

Question 1

Androgen

Answer 1

hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sex characteristics, such as beard growth and deepening of voice (testosterone)

Produced in testes, adrenal glands

Question 2

Aspermia

Answer 2

failure in male sperm cells production as well as ejaculation of semen (fluid and sperm cells)

Question 3

Azoospermia

Answer 3

lack of spermatozoa in the semen (testicular dysfunction, chemo blockage, vasectomy)

Question 4

BPH

Answer 4

Benign prostatic hypertrophy or hyperplasia

Question 5

Cryogenic

Answer 5

use of extremely cold temperatures to freeze or destroy tissue

Question 6

Cryptorchidism

Answer 6

one or both testes fail to descend from the abdomen in the scrotal sac near the time of birth

Question 7

Epididymitis

Answer 7

inflammation of the epididymis (fever, chills, pain in groin, tender, swollen epididymis)

Question 8

Gonorrhea

Answer 8

STD transmitted infection involving inflammation of the genital tract mucous membranes and caused by gonococci bacteria (berry-shaped bacteria)

Question 9

Hydrocele

Answer 9

sac of clear fluid within the scrotum

hernia within the scrotum

Question 10

Oligospermia

Answer 10

scanty sperm count

Question 11

Orchiectomy

Answer 11

removal of testis= castration

Question 12

Orchiopexy

Answer 12

surgical fixation of an undescended testis

(Cryptorchism) in the scrotum

Question 13

Prostatectomy

Answer 13

removal of prostate gland

Question 14

Prostatic hyperplasia

Answer 14

increased growth of the prostate gland in numbers of cells

Question 15

Prostatitis

Answer 15

inflammation of the prostate gland

Question 16

Seminal Vesicle

Answer 16

one of a pair of sac like male exocrine glands lying behind the urinary bladder and opening into the vas deferens

it secretes fluid that is the major part of semen

Question 17

Spermatozoa

Answer 17

sperm cells

Question 18

Teratoma

Answer 18

a benign tumor occurring in the testes composed of different type of tissue, such as bone, hair cartilage and skin cells

Question 19

Testis

Answer 19

male gonad that produces spermatozoa (sperm cells) and the hormone testosterone

Question 20

testosterone

Answer 20

male hormone secreted by the interstitial cells of the testes, responsible for male characteristics

Question 21

TURP

Answer 21

thru the urethra

removal of prostate

transurethral prostectomy

Question 22

Varicocele

Answer 22

enlarged, dilated veins near a testicle, associated with oligospermia and azoospermia

Question 23

Vas Deferens

Answer 23

narrow tube that carries sperm from the epididymis into the body, around the urinary bladder toward the urethra

Question 24

Vasectomy

Answer 24

removal of a piece of each vas deferens and tying off each end

Question 25

vasovasostomy

Answer 25

a new opening in the end of a severed vas deferens

reversal of a vasectomy