Clinical Anatomy of the Reproductive System

Question 1

Where does the pelvic cavity lie?

Answer 1

between pelvic inlet and outlet

Question 2

What does the pelvic floor separate?

Answer 2

pelvic cavity and perineum

Question 3

What is the parietal perineum?

Answer 3

lining abdominal cavity

Question 4

Name the 3 layers of the body of the uterus

Answer 4

perimetrium, myometrium, endometrium

Question 5

What is the first 2 steps of menstruation?

Answer 5

ova develops in ovaries. 1 ovum released from surface of ovary into peritoneal cavity

Question 6

What are the 3rd and 4th steps of menstruation?

Answer 6

ovum is gathered by fimbrae into infundibulum. Moved along uterine tube by cilia

Question 7

What is the final step of menstruation?

Answer 7

unfertilised ovum expelled my contractions of myometrium

Question 8

What tube connects testes to urethra?

Answer 8

vas deferens

Question 9

STI can travel and form infection where?

Answer 9

perineum - peritonitis

Question 10

What is female sterilisation called?

Answer 10

tubal ligation

Question 11

What is the foreskin of a penis called?

Answer 11

prepuce

Question 12

Scrotum creates what by passing into scrotum in development?

Answer 12

inguinal canal

Question 13

Epididymis becomes what?

Answer 13

vas deferens

Question 14

Before entering the epididymis sperm passes through what?

Answer 14

rete testis

Question 15

What produces sperm?

Answer 15

seminoferous tubules

Question 16

Sperm cord consists of what 3 structures?

Answer 16

Vas def, testicular artery, pampiniform

Question 17

The head of the penis is called what?

Answer 17

glans

Question 18

what is a vasectomy?

Answer 18

cutting of the vas deferens