Physiology Of Reproductive System

Question 1

Name the two Gonadotropins that lay dormant until activated by the pituitary

Answer 1

FSH and LH

Question 2

Name the term.

Increased secretion of adrenal androgens

Answer 2

Adrenarche

Question 3

What is the term for development of breast

Answer 3

Thelarche

Question 4

What hormone is responsible for the growth of ducts

Answer 4

Esteradiol

Question 5

What hormone is primarily responsible for the growth of lobules and alveoli

Answer 5

Progesterone

Question 6

Name the term for the development of axillary and pubic hair

Answer 6

Pubarche

Question 7

What is the first menstrual period called?

Answer 7

Menarche

Question 8

What controls and regulates sexual maturity?

Answer 8

Hypothalamic, pituitary, and ovarian hormones

Question 9

What is the first phase of the ovarian cycle?

Answer 9

Follicular phase

Question 10

What hormone comes from the anterior pituitary on day one?

Answer 10

FSH

Question 11

What does FSH do on day one of the cycle?

Answer 11

Stimulates several primordial follicles to enlarge

Question 12

What is it called when the Oocyte is surrounding by elongated follicular cells

Answer 12

Corona radiata

Question 13

When does the one mature follicle become dominant?

Answer 13

Day 6

Question 14

When does the luteal phase start?

Answer 14

Day 14

Question 15

What hormone predominates in the luteal phase?

Answer 15

LH

Question 16

What does the luteal phase start with?

Answer 16

Ovulation

Question 17

What is it called when the left behind follicles fill with blood?

Answer 17

Corpus hemmorrhagicum

Question 18

What hormone is secreted if fertilization occurs?

Answer 18

Progesterone

Question 19

What is known as the menstrual phase of the uterine cycle?

Answer 19

Day one of bleeding. Endometrium sheds its functional layer

Question 20

What is the proliferative phase of the uterine cycle?

Answer 20

When menstruation ceases to ovulation.

Question 21

What hormone levels increase during the proliferative phase

Answer 21

Estrogen from the ovaries

Question 22

What is known as the secretory phase of the uterine cycle

Answer 22

After ovulation until next day 26

Question 23

What hormone increases from the corpus luteum during the secretary phase

Answer 23

Progesterone

Question 24

What is the premenstrual phase of the uterine cycle

Answer 24

The last two days if fertilization does not occur the corpus luteum atrophies and progesterone plummets

Question 25

What hormone does the hypothalamus produce?

Answer 25

GNRH

Question 26

What does GNRH stimulate to secrete what hormone?

Answer 26

Similes pituitary to secrete FSH

Question 27

FSH simulates the ovary to produce which hormone?

Answer 27

Estrogen

Question 28

What happens when estrogen goes back to the hypothalamus?

Answer 28

This decreases FSH and increases LH

Question 29

What hormone is released from the ovum to initiate ovulation

Answer 29

The LH surge

Question 30

What hormone levels fall if fertilization does not occur

Answer 30

Estrogen and progesterone

The suppression of FSH and LH is lifted

Question 31

What happens prior to our relation information in order for easier travel of the sperm?

Answer 31

Estrogen acts to swell and soften the cervix and thins the cervical mucus

Question 32

What is progesterone do after ovulation

Answer 32

Causes the cervix to harden, close, secrete thicker, more hostile mucus which acts as a plug pre-venting bacteria and sperm from entering the uterus

Question 33

What happens to a woman’s temperature during the luteal phase?

Answer 33

It increases