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Chapter 9 - Male Reproductive System - Terminology Flashcards

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What is Flagellum and where is it located?

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  • Hair like projection that makes the sperm cells mobile

- Its the tail of the sperm

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What is Spermatozoon or Sperm cells?

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Male sex cell

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What does the sperm carries on the Head Region?

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Carries its nuclear hereditary material or chromosomes

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What is fraternal twins?

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  • Resulting from fertilization of 2 egg and 2 sperm cells
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What is identical twins?

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  • Resulting from fertilization of a single egg by a single sperm cell then divided into 2
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What does the male reproductive system designed to produce and release?

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  • Billions of sperm cells throughout the man’s lifetime
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What is testosterone?

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  • A hormone responsible for the bodily characteristics of the male
  • Androgen
  • Male hormone
  • Ex: beard, public hair and deeper voice
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What is Scrotum?

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  • Sac containing the male gonads (sperm cells)
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What is Seminiferous Tubules?

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  • Where sperm is formed/made in the testes

- Parenchymal tissue in the testes

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What is Prostate gland?

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  • Under the bladder and surrounds the urethra
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What is Epididymis /Epididymides?

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  • Stores and carries semen to the vas deferens

- One pair of long, tightly coiled tubes above each testis

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What is the Cowper glands/Bulbourethral glands?

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  • Extra fluids to combine with the semen

- Pair of exocrine glands near the male urethra

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What is ejaculation?

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  • Ejection of sperm and fluid from the male urethra
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Ejaculatory duct

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  • Tube through which semen enters the male urethra
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Erectile Dysfunction (ED)

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  • Inability of an adult male to achieve an erection; impotence
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Glans Penis

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  • Sensitive tip of the penis like the clitoris in female
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What is Conjoined (Siamese)?

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  • Twins are incompletely separated identical twins
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Interstitial cells of the testes / Leydig cells

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  • Produces testosterone
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Parenchymal Tissue

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  • Seminiferous Tubules in the testes

- Essential distinctive cells of an organ

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Penis

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  • Make external organ of reproduction
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Perineum

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  • External region between the anus and scrotum
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Prepuce

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  • Foreskin; fold skin covering the penis
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Semen

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  • Spermatozoa or seminal fluid discharged from the urethra during ejaculation
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Seminal Vesicles

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  • Paired sac-like exocrine glands that secrete fluid into the vas deferens
  • Help mobilize the sperm
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Spermatozoon, Spermatozoa

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  • Sperm cell
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Sterilization

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  • Procedures that removes a person’s ability to produce or release reproductive cells through removal of testicles, vasectomy, or oophorectomy
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Stromal Tissue

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  • Supportive, connective tissue or an organ; stroma
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Testis, Testes

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  • Male gonad (testicle) that produces spermatozoa and testosterone
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Vas Deferens

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  • Narrow tube carrying sperm from the epididymis toward the urethra; ductus dferens
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Hypospadias

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  • Congenital condition of the male urethra

- Where the urethra come out from the side instead of on tip

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A spermolytic substance

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  • Destroys sperm cells
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Chlamydial Infection

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  • Blood in urine, painful intercourse, will need ABX
  • Most often caused Nongonococcal urethritis
  • STI
  • Can spread and cure
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Herpes genitalis

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  • Once have it, will always have it
  • ABX
  • Comes out with stress
  • STI
  • Primary lesion is blister
  • Non cureable
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Human papilloma virus (HPV)

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  • Both male and female
  • 2 injection starting at age 9
  • ABX
  • STI
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Syphilis

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  • Big ulcers on the penis that can affect the nervous system
  • ABX
  • STI
  • Cryogenic surgery
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)

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  • Laboratory test for levels of an antigen

- Might be false, if a rectum exam is done before the test

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Semen analysis

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  • Men bring back the semen cup in __ weeks after a vestectomy
  • Laboratory test
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Digital Rectum Exam

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DRE

- use to check patient’s prostate

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Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

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TURP

- Take tissue sample from the urethra

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Sexually Transmitted Infection

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STI

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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

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BPH

  • Benign growth of cells
  • 1st stage of prostate cancer
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Balanitis

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Inflammation of the glans penis

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Cryogenic surgery

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Pertaining to destruction of tissue by producing cold temperatures

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Cryptorchidism

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Undescended/ hidden testicles

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Epididymitis

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Inflammation of the epididymis

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Gonorrhea

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  • STI
  • Marked by gonococci and urethral discharge
  • ABX
  • Can spread and cure
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Hydrocele

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Hernia (sac) of fluid in the scrotal sac/scrotum

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Orchiectomy

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Removal of a testicle

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Orchitis

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Inflammation of a testicle

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Penile

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Pertaining to the penis

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Penoscrotal

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Pertaining to the penis and scrotum

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Prostatitis

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Inflammation of the prostate gland

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Prostatectomy

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Removal of the prostate gland

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Spermolytic

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Pertaining to destruction of sperm

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Oligospermia

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Scantly production of sperm

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Aspermia

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Lack of formation or ejaculation of semen

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Teratoma

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Tumor (testicular) that is composed of may type of tissue

- Monster mass tumor with teeth, eye and vein

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Testicular

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Pertaining to the testes

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Varicocele

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  • Hernia ( collection ) of swollen, twisted veins above the testes
  • Large dilated/ twisted veins
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Vasectomy

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Removal of a portion of each vas deferens

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Azoospermia

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Lack of spermatozoa in semen

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Spermatogenesis

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Formation of sperm cells

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Orchiopexy

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Fixation of the testicle. It is put in place following a diagnosis of cryptorchidism

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Vasovasostomy

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New opening (anastomosis) between two parts of the vas deferens; surgery to reverse vasectomy

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Testicular torsion

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Twisting of the spermatic cord

66
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Make gamete

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Sperm cells

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