1.2.3 Accessory Male Reproductive Organs

Question 1

What this be?

Answer 1

Efferent ductule

Question 2

What are the five functions of epididymis?

Answer 2

Sperm maturation, sperm storage, sperm disposal, absorption, secretion

Question 3

What is the normal ejaculate sperm load?

Answer 3

40 x 10⁶ sperm

Question 4

What this be?

Answer 4

BPH

Question 5

What percentage of sperm is nonmotile?

Answer 5

40%

Question 6

What are the three muscular layers of the vas deferens?

Answer 6

Inner/outer: longitudinal

Middle: Circular

Question 7

What are the five steps that allow a sperm to penetrate an ovum?

Answer 7

Question 8

What are the four tubes after the seminiferous tubule?

Answer 8

Tubuli recti, rete testis, efferent ductules, epididymis

Question 9

ID

Answer 9

Top left: Rete testis

Other 2: Efferent ductule

Question 10

Identify cell types in epididymis

Answer 10

Question 11

Three sections of epididymis?

Answer 11

Head, body, tail

Question 12

What is responsible for liquification of ejaculate?

Answer 12

Proteolytic enzymes from prostate

Question 13

Inability to gain or maintain an erection

Answer 13

ED

Question 14

What type of nervous stimulation leads to erections?

Answer 14

Parasympathetic

Question 15

Who is at risk for BPH?

Answer 15

Non-asian men over 80

Question 16

What are prostatic concretions?

Answer 16

Whirls of concretions (calcified)

Question 17

What is the name for the periurethral gland?

Answer 17

Glands of Lettre

Question 18

What race is most at risk for prostate cancer?

Answer 18

AAs (the blacks - Cooper didn’t want you to confuse it for asain american)

Question 19

What occurs in 40% of patients who have vasectomy?

Answer 19

Spermatic granulomas

Question 20

Vasvasotomy: what is it?

Answer 20

Reversal of vasectomy

Question 21

What is important about the periurethral zone (transition)?

Answer 21

Site of benign prostate hypertrophy

Question 22

What are the four characteristics of the seminal vesicle secretions to know?

Answer 22

Fructose, prostaglandins, proteins responsible for semen coagulation, slightly alkaline pH

Question 23

What these be?

Answer 23

Prostatic concretions

Question 24

What transforms ejaculate from a liquid to a semisolid? What produces it?

Answer 24

Protein kinase; Seminal vesicle

Question 25

Third most common cause of cancer death in US males?

Answer 25

Prostate carcinoma

Question 26

Name the gland. Responsible for pre-ejaculation (dat pre-cum)

Answer 26

bulbourethral gland (Cowper’s)

Question 27

Where does your ejaculate go during retroejaculation?

Answer 27

Into the urinary bladder (i.e. self-impregnation)

Question 28

What are the two main treatments of BPH?

Answer 28

Alpha₁-adrenergic receptor inhibitors

Inhibitors of 5 alpha-reductace type 2

Question 29

What are some of the different sperm morphologies?

Answer 29

Question 30

Identify

Answer 30

Question 31

Describe the stages of innervation during erection and ejaculation

Answer 31

Question 32

What are the steps of fertilization?

Answer 32

Question 33

What are the important prostate secretions?

Answer 33

Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), prostate specific antigen (PSA), spermin, fibrinolysin

Question 34

Important about peripheral zone of the prostate?

Answer 34

Prostate Cancer!

Question 35

What this be?

Answer 35

Prostate gland

Question 36

Define normozoospermia, oligiozoospermia, asthenozoospermia, teratozoospermia, azoospermia, aspermia.

Answer 36

Question 37

Where are sperm with fertilizing capabilities found?

Answer 37

Cauda (tail) of epididymis

Question 38

What % of sperm is found in its normal form?

Answer 38

15%

Question 39

What has a “star shaped” lumen?

Answer 39

The Efferent Ductules

Question 40

Does vasectomy effect hormonal levels?

Answer 40

No

Question 41

Name the zones of the prostate and important characteristics!!

Answer 41

Peripheral: Prostate cancer

Transition: BPH

Question 42

What this be?

Answer 42

Seminal vesicle