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Chapter 4 - Part 2 Flashcards

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1
Q

What are the make external organs?

A

Penis
Foreskin
Scrotum

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2
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What is the glans?

A

tip pf penis

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3
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What is another word for the urethral opening?

A

Meatus

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4
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What is the meatus?

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Opening at the end of the glands where fluids pass

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5
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How many corpus sporangium surround the urethra?

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3

-2 on top then one on the bottom

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6
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What is the body of the penis?

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The shaft

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What is the corona?

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Raised ridge separationg glans from the body of the penis

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What is another word for foreskin?

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Prepuce

-removed during circumcision (30%) world wide

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9
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Why do people get circumcized?

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Cultural
Aesthetic
Religious reasons

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10
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Is there any benefit for circumciison?

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No valid medical indications for circumcision

  • position currently under review
  • linked to STI transmission
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11
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What is the rate of circumcision in Canada?

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32%

  • 44% in Ontario and alberta
  • less than 10% in NS and NWT
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12
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Do men who are uncircumcised have greater transmission or risk of what?

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Higher risk of of UTI
Higher risk of STI transmission
-inner foreskin surface susceptible to viruses

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13
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What are the 2 kinds of male genital cutting?

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Supercision (super incision): slit made the length of the foreskin not he top

Subincision: slit made on lower side of penis along its entire length

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14
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Why would adult males get a circumcision?

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Phimosis: inability to retract the distal foreskin over the gland

  • occurs naturally in newborns
  • Inability to retract the foresking after it was previously retractible after puberty

Paraphimosis: entrapment of a retracted foreskin behind the coronal ridge

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15
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What is the male genital self image influenced by?

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Cultural norms
Sexual experience
Medical conditions

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16
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What are the 2 kinds of tissue in the penis?

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Corpora cavernosa- 2 spongy bodies lying on top

Corpus spongiosum- single body lying on the bottom off the penis, urethra runs through the middle of it

17
Q

What is the differences between tumescence and detumescence?

A

Tum: Erect and engorged

Deut: is the opposite

18
Q

What is the scrotum?

A

Loose pouch of skin, lightly covered with hair

-contains the testes

19
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What is the cremastueric reface?

A

Scrotum pulls the testes closer to the body

-muscle connecting scrotum to body to regulate temp and protect viability of sperm

20
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What is the function of testes?

A

Make germ cells to make sperm

Make testosterone

21
Q

What are the male internal organs?

A 
Epididymis
Seminiferous tubules
Interstitial cells
Vas Deferens
Prostate
Cowpers Glands
22
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What is the Epididymis?

A

Long tube coriled into a small crescent shaped region on the top and side of the testis
-stores, ripens and matures sperm

23
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What is the Seminiferous tubules?

A

Long series of threadlike tubes in tests

Manufactured and store sperm

24
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What are the Interstitial cells?

A

Also called lending cells

  • function is to produce testosterone
  • Found in the connective tissue lying between the seminiferous tubules
25
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What is the vas deferens?

A

Tube that gots up and out of the scrotum and eventually passes through the prostate where it is called the ejaculatory duct
-cut during vasectomy

26
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What are the seminal vesicles?

A

2 sac like structured that lie above the prostate , behind the bladder and in front of the rectum
-Produces 70% fo the seminal fluid

27
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What is the prostate?

A

Lies below the bladder
Shaped and size of chestnut
-gets bigger with a ge

Secretes a milky alkaline fluid that is part of the ejaculate

28
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What is coopers glands?

A

Bulbourethral gland located below the prostate and empty into urethra

secretions of pre-ejaculate and may contain sperm

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