Numbers

Question 1

How much blood does the heart pump per minute?

Answer 1

5L/min

Question 2

How much blood does the heart pump a day

Answer 2

7000 L/day

Question 3

How long does it take to be unconscious and death occurs in how many mins after the heart fails to work

Answer 3

10 seconds

4 minutes

Question 4

When do boys grow their pubic hair?

Answer 4

6 months after testicular enlargement

18 months later in axilliary hair

Question 5

How many follicles

Answer 5

7 million before birth, 1-2 million at birth, around 400000 at puberty and less than 1000 at menopause

Question 6

Menopausal numbers

Answer 6

40-46 regular cycles ( premenopause)
46-50 is menopausal transition
50-52 is about menopause
1 year after menopause, ovary can’t produce hormones and is known as ovarian senescence

Menopause is when ovaries run out of follicles

Question 7

When does penis enlargement occur

Answer 7

1 year after testicular enlargement

Question 8

Precocious puberty numbers

Answer 8

7 in girls
9 in boys
sign of some kind of brain tumour

Question 9

Delayed puberty numbers

Answer 9

13 in girls

14 in boys

Question 10

Menarche/ovulation

Answer 10

Menarche occurs 12-13 years

first ovulation occurs 6-9 months after menarche as positive feedback of oestrogen is not yet established

regular cycles of ovulation don’t happen until 1-2 years after menarche

Question 11

Growth spurt

Answer 11

stimulated by steroid hormones; oestrogen and androgen with epiphyseal closure done by oestrogen

11-12 in girls
13-15 in boys

Question 12

How long does it take for the sperm to gain the ability to be motile and fertilise while in the epididymis

Answer 12

10-14 days

Question 13

Vas deferens

Answer 13

45cm long

Question 14

prostatic secretion pH

Answer 14

6.5

Question 15

Urethra length

Answer 15

20 cm long

Question 16

pH of semen

Answer 16

7.5

Question 17

ejaculate make up

Answer 17

2-5 mls

10% sperm
60% seminal vesicle
30% prostate

Question 18

BPH make-up

Answer 18

50-59 17%
60-69 27%
70-79 35%

90% of men over 85

Question 19

Prostate cancer facts

Answer 19

29% of all cancer cases in men are prostate

30% of men have prostate cancer, but didn’t know so only 9.5% diagnosed

Question 20

IVF requires about

Answer 20

50000 motile sperm

Question 21

sperm production per testis facts

Answer 21

300-600 sperm/gram of testis per second

Question 22

Number of oocytes released per lifetime

Answer 22

400

Question 23

mature oocyte released

Answer 23

every 28 days

Question 24

length of vagina

Answer 24

7.5-9.0 cm

Question 25

Uterus weighs

Answer 25

30-40g

Question 26

Ovary weighs

Answer 26

5-10g

Question 27

corpus luteum normal lifespan

Answer 27

2 weeks

Question 28

About day 6-7, the selection

Answer 28

of the dominant follicle with increased oestradiol

Question 29

day 12

Answer 29

A threshold concentration of oestradiol is created

Question 30

testis descends from its internal position to the scrotum usually after the

Answer 30

7th month

Question 31

5-6 weeks the foeti are

Answer 31

undifferentiated

Question 32

Wolffian ducts begin to regress slowly from

Answer 32

about 10 weeks

Question 33

First physical sign of secondary sexual maturation at age

Answer 33

10-11

Question 34

After 6 months of the appearance of breast bud

Answer 34

pubic and axilliary hair follows