PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF THE MALE GENITALIA

Question 1

What is the function of the penis?

Answer 1

Excrete urine and introduce semen into the vagina

Question 2

What is a slit-like opening about 2mm ventral to the tip of the glans?

Answer 2

Urethral orifice

Question 3

Spermatogenesis requires temps lower than what?

Answer 3

37 degrees celsius

Question 4

What do the testicles produce ?

Answer 4

1. Spermatozoa

2. Testosterone

Question 5

What provides for the storage, maturation, and transmission of the sperm?

Answer 5

Epididymis

Question 6

The prostate produces the major volume of ejaculatory fluid, containing what that liquefies coagulated semen?

Answer 6

Fibrinolysin enzyme

Question 7

What extends from the prostate to the posterior surface of the bladder?

Answer 7

Seminal vesicles

Question 8

How much blood fills the corpora cavernosa during an erection?

Answer 8

20-50mL of blood

Question 9

External genitalia are the same for males and females at 8 weeks of gestation but differentiation occurs by what week?

Answer 9

12th week of gestation

Question 10

Separation of the prepuce from the glans is usually incomplete at birth and may remain so until what age in uncircumcised males?

Answer 10

3-4 y/o

Question 11

What is phimosis ?

Answer 11

the foreskin is tight and cant be retracted

Question 12

Scrotal lumps may be caused by what?

Answer 12

sebaceous cysts

Question 13

Uncircumcised males may have what as a result of nonretractable foreskin?

Answer 13

Balanoposthitis

Question 14

A pin point urethral opening suggest what?

Answer 14

meatal stenosis

Question 15

A beaded or lumpy vas deferens suggests what?

Answer 15

1. Diabetes
2. Tuberculosis
3. Inflammatory changes

Question 16

What is the diameter of the testicle of a newborn?

Answer 16

1cm

Question 17

Newborn scrotum without rugae and testes suggests what?

Answer 17

preterm birth

Question 18

A hard, enlarged painless testicle may indicate what?

Answer 18

Tumah

Question 19

Femoral hernia occur at the ____, where the femoral artery exits the abdomen and are more common in females than males

Answer 19

fossa ovalis

Question 20

What is the inability to replace the foreskin to its usual position after it has been retracted behind the glans ?

Answer 20

Paraphimosis

Question 21

What is a congenital defect in which the urethral meatus is located on the ventral surface of the glans, penile shaft, or perineal area?

Answer 21

Hypospadias

Question 22

Most commonly located on the glans, syphilitic chancre lesion of primary syphilis generally occur how long after exposure?

Answer 22

2 weeks

Question 23

What is a soft, reddish lesion that arises because of an infection with a papovirus?

May undergo malignant degeneration to squamous cell carcinoma

Answer 23

Condyloma acuminatum

Question 24

What is an STI caused by a chlamydial organism, with the initial lesion being a painless erosion at or near the coronal sulcus?

Answer 24

Lymphogranuloma venereum

Question 25

What STI is caused by a poxvirus and presents with pearly gray lesions that are often umbilicated, smooth, dome shaped, with discrete margins?

Answer 25

Molluscum contagiosum

Question 26

What disease is characterized by a fibrous band in the corpus cavernosum that results in deviation of the penis during erection?

Answer 26

Peyronie disease

Question 27

What is a nontender, smooth, firm mass that results from fluid accumulation in the tunica vaginalis and will transilluminate?

Answer 27

Hydrocele

Question 28

What is a cystic swelling that occurs on the epididymis?

Answer 28

Spermatocele

Question 29

What is known as an abnormal tortuosity and dilation of the pampiniform plexus within the spermatic cord; most common on the left side and is painful; occurs in boys and young men and associated with decreased fertility?

Answer 29

Varicocele

Question 30

Is testicular torsion a medical emergency?

Answer 30

YES