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Assessment Of The Male Genitourinary System Flashcards

1
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(5) functions of the Male GU System

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  1. Manufacturing and protecting sperm for fertilization
  2. Transportation of sperm
  3. Regulating hormonal production and secretion of male sex hormones
  4. Providing sexual pleasure
  5. Excreting urine
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2
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Sac that contains the testes

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Scrotum

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3
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Produces sperm and testosterone

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Testes

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4
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Duct from epididymis to ejaculatory duct

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Vas deferens

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5
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Protective sheath around the vas deferens

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Spermatic cord

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6
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3 tubes that the spermatic cord houses

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  1. Nerves
  2. Blood vessels
  3. Ductus deferens
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7
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Produce 70% semen

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Seminal vesicles

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8
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Decrease acidity after urination

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Seminal fluid

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9
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In male, it secretes alkaline substance to neutralize vaginal secretions

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Bulbourethral glands

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10
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  • produces 20% semen
  • has direct contact with first part of urethra
  • located at the neck of the urinary bladder
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Prostate

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11
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Stores sperm until it is mature

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Epididymis

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12
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Filters blood and removes waste

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Kidney

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13
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Tube connecting kidney to bladder

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Urethra

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14
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Passageway for urine

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Urethra

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15
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Male sex organ and urine elimination

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Penis

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16
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Important for sexual arousal
Like clitoris

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Glans penis

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17
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  • canal for vas deferens from scrotum through the abdominal muscles, inguinal lymph nodes
  • site for hernia
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Inguinal area

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18
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Causes vasodilation of the arterioles in the penis resulting in erection

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Sexual excitement

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19
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Hormones that increase bone density

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Androgens

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20
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Achieved with an intact detrusor muscle, internal sphincter muscle tone, and external sphincter contraction

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Bladder continence

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21
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In the neurological system of male, it happens when their is contraction of the detrusor muscle and relaxation of the sphinter

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Micturition

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22
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3 hormones that triggers testosterone secretion and spermatogenesis

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Gonadotropin releasing hormone, luteinizing hormone, and follicle stimulating hormone

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23
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Undescended testes and few rugae

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Premature

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24
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Scrotal edema or ecchymosis

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Breech

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25
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Ventral urethral opening on the glans

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Hypospadias

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26
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Dorsal opening on the glans

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Epispadias

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27
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Common findings in boys under the age of 2

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Hydroceles and hernias

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28
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  • water in testicles
  • subsides, water will be reabsorbed
  • enlargement due to fluid accumulation
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Hydroceles

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29
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Refers to ventral or dorsal curvature of the penis
- not a disease but an anatomical position

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Chordee

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30
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Flu, inflammation of the abdomen

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Ascitis

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31
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  • infection
  • hernia lymphadenopathy
  • sexual abuse
  • injury during play
  • toilet training
  • problem in urination
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Children

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32
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Inability to control urination

Bed wetting

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Enuresis

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33
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Infertility as a result of orchitis
Inflammation of the parotid gland

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Mumps (parotitis)

34
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  • inflammation of the testis
  • acute pain, swelling, and warm scrotal skin
  • MMR immunization
35
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  • undescended testicles
  • inguinal hernia
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Testicular CA Risk

36
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Use to track sexual maturation in male during puberty by characterizing pubic hair distribution, penile, and testicular size

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Tanner Staging

37
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  • preadolescent and no sexual hair
38
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Spars, pigmented, long, straight, mainly along the labia and at the base of the penis

39
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Darker, coarser, and curlier

40
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Adult, but decreased distribution

41
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Adult in quantity and type with spread to medial thighs

42
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  • leads to erectile dysfunction
  • depression (risk factor)
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Anti Hypertension

43
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Where circumcision is recommended for health benefits; high rate

44
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Where circumcision is not necessary

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Canada, England, Sweden

45
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Circumcision as a religious practice

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Jews and Muslim

46
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  • occurs in uncircumcised males
  • foreskin is unable to retract and become swollen
47
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  • inability to return foreskin over penis because of edema, yeast, or bacterial infection
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Paraphimosis

48
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  • usually has an acute onset and often follows trauma or infection
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Genital Pain

49
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(2) can cause epididymitis

50
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  • perineal pain (bacterial or non bacterial in origin)
51
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  • vesicles, ulcers, warts, or rashers
  • often symptoms of STD, but also maybe caused by a systemic problem or Carcinoma
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Genital lesions

52
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  • edema
  • may result from local trauma or infection, but maybe associated with systemic problem such as CHF
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Genital Swelling

53
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What does swelling in the inguinal area indicate

54
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Normal drainage of penile discharge

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Seminal fluid and urine

55
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  • copious, thick, yellow discharge
56
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Yellow discharge

57
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Thin, watery discharge

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Prostatitis

58
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Discharge that indicates trauma, infection, or cancer

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Bloody discharge

59
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Usually accompanies infectious origin

60
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Often associated with male reproductive organs

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Urinary system

61
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(5) common complaints of male in urinary problems

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  1. Dysuria
  2. Burning
  3. Frequency
  4. Changes in urinary pattern
  5. Hematuria
62
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Often causes urinary problem

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Reproductive problems

63
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Painful sustained erection without sexual desire

64
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  • causes painful reddened groups of small vesicles or blisters on the prepuce, shaft, or glans
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Genital Herpes

65
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  • indicates primary syphilis
  • hard, round papule with erythematous halo, surrounding edema, friable base
  • palpated- button like
  • eventually erodes into an ulcer
  • swollen lymph nodes in the inguinal area
66
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  • late syphilis stage that can cause paresis, tremors, personality changes, and psychosis
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Neurosyphilis

67
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  • caused by condyloma acuminatum
  • flesh colored, soft, moist papillary growth that occurs singly or in cauliflower-like clusters
  • barely visible or several inches in diameter
  • caused by HPV
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Genital Warts

68
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  • fungal infection of the groin
  • jock itch
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Tinea cruris

69
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  • swelling and widening of veins along the spermatic cord
  • “bag of worms” and slowly collapse when the scrotum is elevated
  • right sided indicates obstruction in the vena cava
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Varicocele

70
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  • painless ulcerative lesion on the glans or prepuce (foreskin)
  • with or without discharge
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Penile Cancer

71
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  • painless scrotal nodule that can’t be transilluminated
  • benign or cancerous
  • tumor can grow, enlarging the testis
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Testicular tumor

72
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  • smooth, firm, symmetrical enlargement of the prostate gland
  • 50 years old
  • urinary hesitancy, nocturia and frequency, and recurring UTI
  • back pain
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Prostate Gland Enlargement

73
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  • protrusion of an organ through an abdominal opening the muscle wall
  • it may be direct or indirect
  • inguinal or femoral
  • heavy lifting
74
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  • hernia that emerges from behind the external inguinal ring and protrudes through it
  • seldom descends into the scrotum
  • usually affect men older than age 40
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Direct inguinal hernia

75
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  • palpated in the internal inguinal canal with its tip in or beyond the canal
  • descend into the scrotum
  • most common
  • men of all ages
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Indirect inguinal hernia

76
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  • feels like soft tumor below the inguinal ligament in the femoral area
  • uncommon in men
  • difficult to distinguish from a lymph node
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Femoral hernia

77
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  • testes is rubbery
  • another risk for testicular cancer
  • undescended testes
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Cryptorchidism

78
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  • round, firm, nontender cutaneous cyst confined in the scrotal skin
  • may result from decrease in localized circulation and closure of sebaceous glands or ducts
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Scrotal Cyst

79
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  • deprivation of oxygen in the testicles
  • symptom of unconnected diabetes
  • cyanosis of the extremeties
  • necrotic tissue, unable to produce sperm
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Gangrene of the Testicles

80
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  • filariasis is a parasitic disease that is caused by thread-like roundworms belonging to the Filarioidea type.
  • they are spread from by blood-feeding black flies and mosquitos
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Lymphedema

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