Male Reproductive System Flashcards
__What makes up the pelvic inlet?
pubic symphysis to the sacral promontory
What is the ala of the ilium?
flared part.
Where are subperitonleal organs?
beneath the pelvic peritoneum.
What muscles make up the pelvic diaphragm?
Levator ani and coccygeus muscles.
What is the urogenital hiatua?
opening between the right and left side of pelvic diaphragm which the urethra passes through.
What is the function of the puborectalis muscle?
Pull the rectum anterior to help with continence.
What forms the puboprostaticus muscle?
The pubococcygeus muscle.
What is the region between the urogenital membrane and the anal membrane?
Perineum.
What is the anterior portion of the cloacal fold called when the perineum is created? Posterior?
Urogenital and Anal respectively.
What are the layers of scrotum up to spermatic fascia?
Skin, dartos muscle, parietal layer of tunica vaginalis.
What is the tunica albuginea?
think layer of connective tissue covering the testis.
What is the mediastinum testis?
Posterior thickening of the tunica albuginea that penetrate into the testis and subdivede it into lobules.
What is contained in a testis lobule?
1-4 seminiferous tubules and cells that produce spermatozoa and Interstitial cells of leydig which produce testosterone.
What is the epididymis?
Tightly coiled tube that is the site of maturation and store of the sperm.
What is the Ductus/Vas Deferens?
tube transmitting sperm from the epididymis do the ejaculatory duct.
What are the contents of the spermatic cord?
Vas deferense and it’s artery, testiscular artery covered in pampiniform plexus, lymphatics, plexi of the autonomic nerves (sympathetic T10-T11), Genital branch of genitofamoral and cremasteric artery.
What are the coverings of the spermatic cord?
External spermatic fascia, cremaster muscle, and internal spermatic fascia.
What do crus of the penis attack to?
Ischiopubic rami.
What covers the crus of the penis?
Ishiocavernous muscle.
What are the crura continuous with?
Corpora cavernosa.
What is the bulb of the penis?
base of the corpus spngiosum with is covered by the bulbospongiosus muscle and transmits the urethra.
What covers the corpora cavernosa and corpus spongiosum?
Buck’s fascia.
What is the suspensory ligament of the penis?
deep fascia from pubic symphysis that slpits to sling the transitional ara from root and body of penis.
What is the Fundiform ligament?
Subcutaneous connective tissue from the linea alba, splits around the penis and terminates in scrotal septum.