Pelvic Viscera

Question 1

Testes
Where do they develop?
What is the serous membrane over the testes?
Name the resevoir of sperm?
Name the tube that sperm travel down.

Answer 1

Develop in abdominal cavity and descend later.
Tunica Vaginalis.
Ductus (Vas Deferens).
Epididymus.

Question 2

Spermatic cord.

What six components makeup the spermatic cord?

Answer 2

Testicular artery.
Ductus (Vas) Deferens.
Pampiniform plexus (veins to cool sperm).
Tunica vaginalis.
Lymphatic vessels.
Genital branch of Genitofemoral nerves.

Question 3

Seminal vesicle
What is it?
What does it merge with?
Where does it enter?

Answer 3

Accessory gland (Seminal fluid).
Joins ductus deferens, enters ejaculatory duct.

Question 4

Prostate
Who has it?
What goes through it?
What does it do?

Answer 4

Male only.
Urethra.
Helps produce semen.

Question 5

Inguinal Canal
WHat is it?
Man part?
Women?
What are the two rings?

Answer 5

Passage from the abdomen to the scrotum.
Spermatic cord.
Round ligament of the uterus.
Superficial inguinal ring and Deep inguinal ring.

Question 6

What controls the distance of the scrotum to the body?

Answer 6

Dortos muscle and cremasor.

Question 7

What allows sperm time to mature?

Answer 7

Epididymus.

Question 8

What pulls the tesicles into the scrotum?

Answer 8

Tunica.

Question 9

What is BPH?

Answer 9

Enlargement of the prostate.It is benign but puts pressure on the bladder–urge to pee.

Question 10

What is an indirect inguinal hernia?

Answer 10

Pushes through the inguinal rings and colon gets in scrotum. “Turn your head and cough”

Question 11

Female
Ovary.
What is it similar to?
Function?
What happens to the egg after ovary?

Answer 11

Similar to testes in men.
Egg production (oogenesis).
Egg released into peritoneal cavity and taken up by uterine tube.

Question 12

Uterine tube.
What are the opening parts?
Where does fertilization occur?
What is the isthmus?

Answer 12

Fimbriae–fingerlike things pull in egg
Infundibulum–entrance to the tube of ovary.
Ampulla.
Thin tube leading from ampulla to uterus.

Question 13

What are the four parts of the uterus?

What is are the os(es)?

Answer 13

Fundus.
Body.
Isthmus.
Cervix.
Internal os (inside uterus, constriction point, beginning of uterus).
External os (end of cervix.)

Question 14

Is the uterus intra or retro peritoneal?
What tissue type of organ?
What happens monthly?

Answer 14

Intraperitoneal.
Strong muscular organ.
Lining thickness changes with monthly cycle. (Prepares for pregnancy cramping)

Question 15

VAgina.
What is close in proximity to this?
What tissue type?

Answer 15

Bladder and rectum.

Connective tissue and muscular tube–stratified squamous epithelium.

Question 16

Pelvic Nerves
Where is the sacral plexus?
What does the pundendal nerve innervate?
What do the para and symp nerves do?

Answer 16

S2–S4.
Innervates all reproduction.
Para-Point
Symp-Shoot.

Question 17

What artery supplies the pelvis?

Answer 17

Internal Iliac Artery.

Question 18

Internal iliac posterior division
Iliolumbar artery supplies…
Lateral Sacral…
Superior gluteal…

Answer 18

Posterior abdominal wall muscles.
Cauda equina.
Sacral region.
Largest branch. Gluteal region. between lumbosacral trunk and S1.

Question 19

Internal iliac anterior (Male)
Superior Vesical art….
Inferior vesical art.

Answer 19

Branch of unbilical art.
Superior bladder, distal ureter, ductus (vas) deferens.
Inferior bladder, seminal vesicles, prostate, and vas deferens.

Question 20

Internal iliac anterior (Female)
Uterine art. how many branches?
Superior branch...
Inferior branch...
Vaginal art.

Answer 20

2 branches.
body and fundus of uterus.
Anastomose with ovarian art.
smaller, cervic and vagina.

From inferior branch of uterine.
Forms numerous anastomoses across vagina.

Question 21

Internal iliac (both)
Umbilical art…
Obturator Art…
Middle rectal art…

Answer 21

Superior portion of bladder.
From inferior epigastric artery.
Supplies prostate, seminal vesicle, ureter and vagina.