Chapter 11 - Female Reproductive System Flashcards
What is the Ovaduct/Fallopian Tubes?
The path to the uterus site of fertilization.
What is the Uterus?
It is the site of fetal development or the “womb”.
What is the Endometrium?
The lining of uterus.
What is the Fimbria?
The finger like projections, they sweep egg into the ova-duct.
What is the Cervix?
The opening to uterus.
What is the Vagina?
The birth and reproduction and canal.
What are the female gonads?
the ovaries
How many ovaries are there?
Two
What are the gametes?
The eggs or oogenesis
What HCG?
It is a hormone that is secreted by placenta, soon after implantation. It tells C.L. to continue progesterone secretion, maintaining the endometrium.
What is the placenta?
it is the medium in which the mother cares for her unborn child, when it’s mature it sends out it’s own hcg in order to maintain endo
What is Hypothalamus?
It monitors body levels to maintain homeostasis.
What is does Estrogen do?
Signals the development of endometrium.
What is does Progesterone do?
It is a hormone that maintains endometrium.
What does F.S.H.?
Follicle Stimulating Homone
What does L.H.?
Leutienizing Hormone.
What does F.S.H. stand for?
Follicle Stimulating Homone
What does L.H. stand for?
Leutienizing Hormone.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
It takes direction from hypothalamus and controls all other glands. “master gland”
What is the Ovarian Cycle?
It is the cycle of the growing and shedding of the endometrium lining the egg.
How many days on average does the Ovarian Cycle last?
28
What is ovulation?
“Hello friends I am here.”
It is when the egg enters the ovaduct.
What day is ovulation usually occur?
Day 14
On what day does estrogen and progesterone begin building the lining again.
5
What is the egg surrounded while still in the ovary?
A follicle
What is the follicle called after the egg leaves?
Corpus lutiem
What does the corpus lutiem secrete to continue the endo thickness?
Progesterone
Happens if day 28 comes and the egg is not fertilized?
menstruation begins
What is menstruation?
“goodbye friends I am going and taking everything with me”
the endometrium sheds its lining and everything flushes out of the vagina.
What causes the mood swings in a female and at what part of the ovarian cycle?
The increase of estrogen is what causes the moodswings
What causes the mood swings in a female.
The increase and decrease of estrogen is what causes the mood swings.
What happens when an egg is fertilized?
The ‘fert’ was embedded in the endometrium, where it sends HCG back to the ovary.
Where are all the dormant eggs located?
Outside the ovary until day 1 where an egg binds with a follicle and the cycle starts again.
After a ‘fert’ is embedded, how does a baby grow?
A placenta is formed and when it is mature secretes own P + E, which maintains endo and the feedback to brain (hypothalimus). Preventing the depletion of SH + LH + thus no new cycles.
After a ‘fert’ is embedded, how does a baby grow?
A placenta is formed and when it is mature secretes own P + E, which maintains endo and the feedback to brain (hypothalimus). Preventing the depletion of SH + LH + thus no new cycles.
As the corpus lutiem begins to shrink what happens the endometrium if the egg not fertilize?
The endometrium begins to deplete
What are the Ovaries?
They are the two circles at the end of the fimbria where the egg begins and it is where estrogen is primarily produced.
