Female Reprodutive Flashcards
What is freemartinism?
Female/male twins
Female becomes an XX/XY chimeras because mullerian inhibiting factor prevents complete female differentiation
General, testes, incomplete uterus and short vagina
Most common in cattle
What is a hermaphrodite?
Has both male and female genitalia features and both ovarian and testicular tissue
What is a pseudohermaphrodite?
Mismatch between gonads and genitals
What are types of ovarian developmental conditions?
Agenesis
Duplication
Hypoplasia
Cystic ovarian disease is most common in what species?
Cattle
What is a dysgerminoma?
Neoplasia of ovary
Comparable to semi Norma in testicle
Unilateral, smooth, soft
In dogs, 10-20% metastasize, more aggressive in horses
What is a teratoma?
Neoplasia of ovary
Generally well-differentiated and benign
Have differentiation into two of the three germ cell layer
Frequently have hair, teeth, lung tissue, nerves, etc.
What do papillae on ovarian carcinoma/adenocarcinomas indicated?
Metastasis
Endometritis is commonly caused by what bacteria?
Campylobacter, tritrichomonas, taylorella, arcanobacter
What are two conditions of fallopian tube?
Hydrosalpinx
Salpingitis
What is commonly associated with cystic endometrial hyperplasia?
Pyometra
What are types of uterine neoplasia?
Uterine carcinoma
Leiomyoma/ leiomyosarcoma
Adenomyosis vs endometriosis
Endometriosis- only primates. Implantation of active endometrial tissue elsewhere
Adenomyosis- infiltration of myometrium by endometrial glands
What fetal monster is characterized by a ball of fur?
Amorphous globosus
What fetal monster condition is characterized by the failure of the abdominal wall to close?
Schistosomus reflexus
What fetal monster condition is characterized by agenesis of the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal areas, arthrogryposis and ankylosis of joints?
Perosomus elumbis
What fetal monster condition has severe, diffuse edema?
Anascara
What fetal monster condition has a meningocele and skull defect?
Hydrocephalus
What fetal monster condition is characterized by twisted joints?
Arthrogryposis
What can cause arthogryposis?
Ingestion of lupin
Akabane virus
What fetal monster condition is characterized by midline defects?
Holoproencephaly
Defect of sonic hedgehog gene
What causes holoprosencephaly?
Ingestion of veratrum californicum
What causes SMEDI syndrome?
Porcine parvovirus
What is indicative of mycotic placentitis?
Lesions on the eye, third eyelid, mouth, GI of fetus- anything in contact with the amniotic fluid
What causes cotyledonary and intercotyledonary lesions?
Brucella abortus
What causes intercotyledonary placentitis?
Coxiella burnetii
What causes equine coital exanthema and vulvovaginitis?
Equine Herpesvirus 3
Multiple masses in the vagina may indicate what disease?
Transmissible venereal tumor
Which mammary tumor is most aggressive?
Simple
What is a benign, hormonal -mediated, mammary mass that consists of fibrous tissue?
Fibroadenomatous hyperplasia
