Anatomy Of The Female Reporductive Tract Flashcards
Germ cells move into primitive sex cords in gonads causing?
Change of gonad epithelial cords into follicular cells
Paramesonephric duct will become?
Mesonephric duct degenerates
Uterus and uterine tubes
Gubernaculum attaches to what and become what?
Lateral margin of uterus and becomes round ligament, continuing to external ring of inguinal canal
Round ligament continues to?
External ring of inguinal canal
If the shape of uterus doesnt form properly what would happen?
Bicorniculate uterus
Function of female genital system?
Produce oocytes/hormone
Transport oocyte
Nourish fertilized oocyte and deliver fetus
Location of ovaries?
Develop retroperitoneal and rmeain in abdominal cavity, suspended by ligament of ovary and mesovarium
Ovarian blood supply within?
Suspensory ligament
Innervation to uterine tube?
Sympathetic from ovarian and paraympathetic from pelvic splanchnic
Innervation to uterus?
Symp from hypogastric plexus
Parasympathetic- pelvic splanchnic nerves
In what percent of women is the uterus retroverted?
20
Round ligament attachment?
Side of uterus to inguinal canal
Broad ligament forms?
Mesosalpinx near uterine tube and mesovarium (holds ovary out)
Vagina is how long?
7-9cm
2 recesses in vagina?
Posterior fornix and anterior fornix
Urogenital folds become?
Labia minora
Labioscrotal swellings become?
Labia majora
Innervation to external genitalia?
Genitofemoral and pudendal nerve
Oxytocin make sacroliac joints and pubic symphsis?
Relax
Which gene is key in male development?
SRY gene
Corpus luteum secretes?
Progesterone
Secondary ovarian is released from where?
Graafian follicle, it is arrested in metaphase of second meiosis division
What do theca and granulosa cells secrete?
Theca secrete androgens and granulosa secrete oestrogen
Touch and pain response in uterus happens through?
Somatic afferent as S2-S4
Superficial perineal pouch contains?
Bulb of penis, ischiocarvenosus and
Clitoris and ischiocarvenosus and bulb of vestibule, greater vestibule gland
Urethra
Pudendal vessels
Superficial transverse perineal muscle
Deep perineal pouch contains?
Bulbourethral glands, dorsal neurovasculature of penis/clitoris
Urethra and external urethral sphincter
Ischioanal fat pads
Deep transverse perineal muscle
Inner part of thigh innervated by?
Ilioinguinal nerve
In females the genital tubercle without androgens…?
Regresses and become the clitoris, the urogenital folds become labia minors and the genital labiascrotal swellings become labia majora
Innervation to external genitalia?
Branches of genitrofemoral and pudendal nerve
