Female Perineum

Question 1

What is the region between the superficial fascia below the skin of the bum and the perineal membrane called?

Answer 1

Superficial perineal pouch

Question 2

What lies between levator ani, obturator internus and the perineal membrane?

Answer 2

Deep perineal pouch

Question 3

What muscles overlie the erectile tissue in the superficial perineal pouch inferior to the perineal membrane? Innervation?

Answer 3

Bulbospongiosus and Ischiocavernosus

Pudendal nerve S2-4

Question 4

What erectile tissue is deep to ischiocavernosus?

Answer 4

Crura of clitoris

Question 5

Where are the bartholin glands located? Inferior or superior to the perineal membrane?

Answer 5

inferior to the bulbs of the vestibule

Inferior to perineal membrane

Question 6

Where does the external urethral sphincter insert and where are these structures located in relation to the perineal membrane?

Answer 6

Through the compressor urethrae to the pelvic bones, superior to the perineal membrane in the deep perineal pouch

Question 7

Two major erectile components of female system?

Answer 7

Crura and body of clitoris

Bulbs of the vestibule

Question 8

What is the function of the Bartholin glands?

Answer 8

Secrete mucus to provide lubrication

Question 9

What muscle overlies the bulbs of the vestibule?

Answer 9

Bulbospongiosus

Question 10

Where is the pudendal canal located and what passes through it?

Answer 10

Ischioanal fossa (in the anorectal triangle)

Internal pudendal artery, internal pudendal vein and pudendal nerve

Question 11

Which trunk of which artery from the common iliac artery supplies the reproductive organs?

Answer 11

Anterior trunk of internal iliac artery

Question 12

In females, what arteries arise from the anterior internal iliac artery?

Answer 12

Umbilical A—> Superior vesical A—> supplies bladder
Obturator —> supplies medial compartment of thigh
Uterine (—>Vaginal) —> uterus
Vaginal —> distal vagina
Internal pudendal —>

Question 13

In males, which arteries arise from the anterior internal iliac artery?

Answer 13

Umbilical artery —> superior vesical A —> bladder
Obturator artery —> medial compartment of thigh
Inferior vesical artery —> prostate and seminal vesicles
Internal pudendal artery —> through pudendal canal in ischio anal fossa —> perineum and external genitalia

Question 14

What supplies the ovaries and testicles?

Answer 14

Ovarian and testicular arteries from abdominal aorta