Lesson 6C (Part 1)

Question 1

What are the organs located in the false/greater pelvis?

Answer 1

The gastrointestinal organs

Question 2

What are the organs located in the true/lesser pelvis? (3)

Answer 2

1. Urinary organs
2. Reproductive organs
3. Accessory sex structures
   - sex dependant

Question 3

What side of the false pelvis is the cecum and ascending colon located?

Answer 3

On the right side

Question 4

What side of the false pelvis is the descending colon located?

Answer 4

On the left side

Question 5

Where does the descending colon become continuous with the sigmoid colon?

Answer 5

At the pelvic brim

Question 6

At what level does the sigmoid colon join with the rectum?

Answer 6

At the level of mid sacrum

- becomes fixed to the posterior pelvic wall

Question 7

What does the rectum follow?

Answer 7

The curvature of the sacrum/coccyx onto the pelvic floor where it penetrates the levator ani muscle and becomes the anal canal

Question 8

What does the linea terminalus separate?

Answer 8

The false and true pelvis

Question 9

What does vesico mean?

Answer 9

Sac or bladder

Question 10

What are 2 pouches in the female?

Answer 10

1. Rectouterine

2. Vesicouterine

Question 11

What does the rectouterine pouch extend to?

Answer 11

The rectum to the uterus

Question 12

What does the vesicouterine pouch extend to?

Answer 12

The bladder to the uterus

Question 13

What is the pouch in males?

Answer 13

Rectovesical

Question 14

Where does the rectovesicle extend to?

Answer 14

The bladder to the rectum

Question 15

Where is the upper half of the ureters located?

Answer 15

In the abdomen

- but cross over the pelvic brim anteriorly to the internal iliac artery origin

Question 16

What do the urinary organs course?

Answer 16

They course the internal iliac arteries then turn medially at the level of the ischial spine to enter the urinary bladder on its posteroinferior surface

Question 17

Where does the urinary bladder lay?

Answer 17

Entirely in the true pelvis

Question 18

Where do females bladders sit?

Answer 18

They rest on the pelvic floor

- pelvic diaphragm

Question 19

Where is the bladder in females compared to the symphysis pubis?

Answer 19

It is posterior

Question 20

What is the prostate gland between? (2)

Answer 20

1. Urinary bladder

2. Pelvic floor

Question 21

Where does the urethra project?

Answer 21

Inferiorly from the bladder to the exterior

Question 22

Where does the urethra project through in males?

Answer 22

Through the prostate gland

Question 23

How long is the urethra in females?

Answer 23

4cm

- long muscular tube

Question 24

Where does the urethra extend from in females?

Answer 24

From the internal urethral orifice to the external urethral orifice

Question 25

Where does the external urethral orifice open into?

Answer 25

The vestibule

- just anterior to the vagina

Question 26

Where does the urinary organs start at?

Answer 26

The kidneys

Question 27

What does hilus mean?

Answer 27

Entry

Question 28

What do the ureters cross over?

Answer 28

The iliac vessels

Question 29

Where is a common spot for stones?

Answer 29

When the ureters cross over the iliac vessels

Question 30

What happens to your organs when your bladder is full?

Answer 30

It pushes everything up and slightly out of the true pelvis

Question 31

What does the orifice mean?

Answer 31

Opening/lumen

Question 32

What goes around the orifice?

Answer 32

A sphincter

Question 33

What is the trigone area most sensitive to?

Answer 33

Pain