Male Repreoductive System Flashcards
Testes
- paired organs located in the scrotrum
Testes layers
Tunicia albuginea - tunica vaginalis - cremaster - scrotum (dartos fascia - skin)
Cremaster
Muscle of balls, extensions of the internal abdominal oblique
Scrotum
Innervated by sympathetic fibers of genitofermoral nerve
Epididymis
Where mature sperm is stored
Has tail - body - head
Inguinal canal
Spermatic cord
Vas deferents
Blood supply : testicular artery
What vein does the left testicular vein go into
Renal vein
Head of soerm
Acrosome - enzymes for breakdown of egg membrane
Mid piece of sperm
Engine (proteins + mitochondria)
Tail of sperm
Mobility
Seminal vesicles
- 2
- contribute 60%
Prostate gland
- 1
- contributes 30%
Bulbourethral (cowper’s) gland
- 2
- contribute 5%
Seminiferous tubules
Contain Sertoli cells that make sperm and interstitial cells that make testosterone
Inside of testes
Corpora cavernosa
- 2
- contains erectile tissue