Male Internal Genetalia Flashcards
Describe the prostate’s location with relation to ther viscera.
The seminal vesicle?
- Prostate
- inferior to bladder
- sitting on the pelvic floor
- Seminal vesicle
- between bladder and rectum
Identify the peritoneal coverings within the pelvis
- Visceral peritoneum
- superior surface of bladder
- base of bladder
- anterior surface of rectum
Identify the fascia indicated in blue, yellow, pink, green, & red
What is the purpose of this fascia?
The blacked out words are not important
- Blue: transversalis fascia (membranous)
- external to peritoneum
- Yellow: Parietal pelvic fascia (membranous)
- continuation of transversalis fascia
- Pink: Visceral pelvic fascia (membranous)
- reflection of parietal pelvic fascia
- Green: endopelvic fat/fascia
- fatty, loose areolar tissue
- Red: extraperitoneal fat/fascia
- continuous with endopelvic fat/fascia
Reinforce position of the organs relative to the pelvis itself & pelvic floor – also thickenings called ligaments or septa provide support
Identify the features indicated in the provided image
Why is it important that the ureters pierce the bladder at an oblique angle?
as the bladder fills, it will cauase the ureters to get pinched off so you don’t have any retrograde flow of urine from ureters to kidneys
Does the ductus deferens cross anterior or posterior to the ureters?
anterior
What is ejaculate?
What percent of ejaculate is produced by the seminal vesicles?
Where do they converge?
ejaculate is the fluid for male ejaculation
70%
seminal vesicles converge at the prostate on the neck of the bladder
Identify the indicated features of the provided image
The rectoprostatic fascia is between what two structures?
It is specific portion of what pelvic fascia?
between the rectum & prostate
endopelvic fascia
Identify the indicated features of the provided image
Identify the features of the male urethra
What are the 3 components of the female external urethral sphincter?
How are they impacted during child birth?
- External sphincter
- sphincter urethrae muscle
- (proper aspect)
- compressor urethrea muscle urethrovaginal muscle
- (across anterior surface of urethra attaching pubis bone to pubis bone )
- urethrovaginal muscle
- (wraps around a urethra and a vagina)
- especially impacted by vaginal birth
- sphincter urethrae muscle
- Urethra is fused to anterior wall of the vagina – so, if the vagina is stretched out as in the case with vaginal child birth, this can affect the position of the urethra & function of these muscles
What is the least distensible portion of the male urethra?
membranous portion
Identify the sections of the male urethra
What is the average length of the male urethra?
20 cm
mostly dependent on the length of the penis
Identify the indicated components of the prostatic urethra