Female anatomy

Question 1

What is part of the female reproductive system?

Answer 1

1. Ovaries
2. Uterine (fallopian) Tubes
3. Uterus
4. Vagina
5. External organs: Vulva or pudendum

Question 2

Mammary Glands are considered part of what system?

Answer 2

Reproductive system.

Question 3

What are a paired organs that produce secondary oocytes (cells that develop into mature ova, or eggs following fertilize) and hormones are created?

Answer 3

Ovaries (egg receptacles)

Question 4

What hormones do the ovaries make?

Answer 4

1. Progesterone
2. Estrogen
3. Inhibin
4. Relaxin

Question 5

What are the female sex hormones?

Answer 5

1. Progesterone
2. Estrogen

Question 6

How are the ovaries held in placed?

Answer 6

Ligaments

Question 7

What is a layer of simple epithelium ( low cuboidal or squamous) that connects the surface of the ovary?

Answer 7

Germinal Epithelium

Question 8

What are deep to the germinal Epithelium, its a region of dense connective tissue that contains ovarian follicles?

Answer 8

Ovarian Cortex

Question 9

What consists of an oocyte and a variable number of surrounding cells that nourish the development oocytes and begin to secrets estrogen as the follicle grows larger?

Answer 9

Ovarian Follicles

Question 10

The Follicle enlarges until it is a mature ______?

Answer 10

Mature ( Graafian) Follicle

Question 11

The remnants of the ovulated follicle develops in to a ?

Answer 11

Corpus Luteum

Question 12

What is a (yellow Body) produces progesterone, estrogens, relaxin, and inhibin?

Answer 12

Corpus Luteum

Question 12

Corpus Luteum will degenerate and turn into fibrous tissue called?

Answer 12

Corpus Albicans (White Body)

Question 13

What is the region deep to the ovarian Cortex that consists of loose connective tissue and contains blood vessels, lymphatic, and nerves?

Answer 13

Ovarian Medulla

Question 14

What structure that extends laterally from the uterus and transport the secondary oocytes from the ovaries to the Uterus?

Answer 14

Uterine (Fallopain) Tubes

Question 15

What is the open, funnel shaped end of each tube is called?

Answer 15

Infundibulum

Question 16

What is a Fringe of finger-like projections from the Infundibulum called?

Answer 16

Fimbriae

Question 17

From the Infundibulum, the uterine tubes extend medially, attaching to the upper and outer comers of the what?

Answer 17

Uterus

Question 18

What causes local currents, which surround the surface of the mature follicle just before ovulation occurs, to sweep the secondary oocyte into the uterine tube?

Answer 18

Fimbriae

Question 19

How is the oocyte moved along the tube by what actions?

Answer 19

Cilia
Peristalic

Question 19

How is the oocyte moved along the tube by what actions?

Answer 19

1. Cilia
2. Peristaltic contractions of the smooth muscle layer.

Question 20

What is the usual site for fertilization of a secondary oocyte by a sperm cell?

Answer 20

Uterine tube

Question 21

How long can fertilization occur after ovulation?

Answer 21

24 hours

Question 22

In how many days does the fertilized ovum (zygote) descend into the uterus?

Answer 22

Seven days

Question 23

What happens to unfertilized secondary oocytes?

Answer 23

Disintegrates

Question 24

What serves as the site of implantation of a fertilized ovum, development of the fetus during pregnancy, and labor?

Answer 24

Uterus

Question 25

What is the dome-shaped portion of the uterus superior to the uterine tubes called?

Answer 25

Fundus

Question 26

What is the tapering central portion of the uterus called?

Answer 26

Body

Question 27

What is the narrow portion opening into the uterus called?

Answer 27

Cervix

Question 28

What is the interior of the body of the uterus called?

Answer 28

Uterine cavity

Question 29

What is the name of the middle layer of uterus muscles, which consist of smooth muscles and form the bulk of the uterine wall?

Answer 29

Myometrium

Question 30

What is the innermost part of the uterine wall, it's a mucous membrane?

Answer 30

Endometrium

Question 31

What layer of the uterus nourishes a growing fetus or is shed each month during menstruation if fertilization doesn't occur?

Answer 31

Endometrium

Question 32

The Endometrium contains many glands called what; they also secrete nourish sperm and the zygote?

Answer 32

Endometrium Glands

Question 33

What is a tubular canal that extends from the exterior of the body to the uterine cervix?

Answer 33

Vagina

Question 34

What three things does the vagina do?

Answer 34

1. Sexual intercourse 2. Outlet of menstruation 3. Passageway for childbirth.n

Question 35

What is the recess that surrounds the cervix in the vagina?

Answer 35

Fornix

Question 36

The mucosa of the vagina has large stores of what ____, the decomposition of which produces organic acids?

Answer 36

Glycogen

Question 37

What is the thin fold of mucous membrane called what _____, partially covering the vagina orifice, the vagina opening?

Answer 37

Hymen

Question 38

What is the diamond-shaped area between the thighs and the buttocks of both males and females that contains the external genitals and anus?

Answer 38

Perineum

Question 39

What refers to the external genitals of the female?

Answer 39

1. Vulva 2. Pudebdum

Question 40

What is an elevation of adipose tissue covered by course pubic hair, which cushions the pubic symphysis?

Answer 40

Mons Pubis

Question 41

What are two longitudinal folds of skin that extend from the Mons Pubis?

Answer 41

Labia Majora

Question 42

What develops from the same embryonic tissues that the scrotum developed from in males?

Answer 42

Labia Majora

Question 43

What contains adipose tissue, sebaceous (oil), and Suboriferios (sweat) Glands and covered in pubic hair?

Answer 43

Labia Majora

Question 44

What structure does NOT contain pubic hair or fat and has few sudoriferous (sweat) glands; and DO contains numerous sebaceous glands?

Answer 44

Labia Minora

Question 45

What is a cylindrical mass of erectile tissue and nerves?

Answer 45

Clitoris

Question 46

What is the area between the Labia Minora?

Answer 46

Vestibule

Question 47

What glands in the wall of the urethra secrete mucus, and are developed from the same embryonic tissue as a male's prostate?

Answer 47

Female's Paraurethral glands (Skene Glands)

Question 48

What glands produce a small quantity of mucus during sexual arousal and intercourse that adds to the cervical mucus and provides lubrication?

Answer 48

Greater Vestibular glands (Bartholin glands)

Question 49

What are modified sudoriferous (sweat glands) that produce milk?

Answer 49

Mammary Glands

Question 50

What is a pigmented projection, with a series of closely spaced openings of ducts where milk emerges?

Answer 50

Nipple

Question 51

What is a circular pigmented area of the skin surrounding the nipple called?

Answer 51

Areola

Question 52

How many lobes does each mammary gland consist of?

Answer 52

15 to 20

Question 53

What are the ligaments that support the breast?

Answer 53

Suspensory Ligaments (Cooper's Ligaments)

Question 54

What are smaller lobules, in which milk-secreting glands?

Answer 54

Alveoli are found

Question 55

At the onset of puberty what hormones help develop a female's breast?

Answer 55

1. Estrogens 2. Progesterone

Question 56

What are the functions of the mammary glands?

Answer 56

1. Synthesis 2. Secretion 3. and ejaculation of MILK

Question 57

Lactation is defined as?

Answer 57

the process of producing and releasing milk from the mammary glands in your breasts.

Question 58

Milk production is stimulated by what hormone, which is created in the Anterior Pituitary gland with contributions from the other two hormones?

Answer 58

1. Prolactin. 2. Progestin and Estrogen

Question 59

What does oxytocin do, which is secreted by the posterior Pituitary Gland?

Answer 59

The ejection of the milk is stimulated.