Female Repoductive System Flashcards
What in the inner lining of the uterus?
Endometrium
What type of tissue is myometrium?
Smooth muscle
What ligament attaches the pelvic wall to the ovaries?
Suspensory ligament
Where are female gamete produced?
In the ovaries
What’s the specific name for female gametes?
Oocytes or eggs
What are oocytes surrounded by follicular cells?
Follicles
Corpus Luteum are the remains of what?
The follicle after ovulation
What is corpus alibcans and when does it occur?
Scar tissue, dead corpus luteum. The tissue dies if fertilization does not occur.
The ovarian ligament connects what together?
The ovaries and the uterus
What’s the order of the follicular cycle?
Primordial follicle, primary follicle, secondary follicle, antral follicle, mature follicle, corpus luteum, and corpus albican.
What phase of the follicular cycle includes, a multi-layered cubodial primary oocyte with a fluid filled space?
Antral
What phase of the follicular cycle includes a squamous primary oocyte?
Primordial
What phase of the follicular cycle included a cuboidal single layered primary oocyte?
Primary
What phase of the follicular cycle is the first with the secondary oocyte?
Mature
What phase do the follicular cycle includes a cuboidal multi-layered primary oocyte?
Secondary
What hormones does the corpus luteum secrete?
Estrogen and progesterone
What hormone does the ovaries secrete?
Estrogen
Where does fertilization occur?
Uterine/ fallopian tubes
What are the three regions of the uterus? (Superior to inferior)
Fundus, body and cervix
What’s the tract of sperm traveling through the female reproductive organs?
Vagina, external os, cervical canal, internal os, uterus, uterine tubes.
What is the most superficial layer of the uterus?
Perimetrium
Unless fertilization occurs, what does the corpus luteum become?
Corpus albicans
What’s the function of the corpus luteum during ovulation?
Produce progesterone and make the uterus heathy for fertilization
What are the finger like projections of the uterine tubes?
Fimbriae