Reproductive Tracts Flashcards
Organs common to male and female reproductive tracts
Gonads
Ducts
Accessory glands
Copulatory glands
Muscle outside of the vaginal tunic; contracts for protection and warmth; pulls on the inside of the tunic
Cremaster
The scrotum is derived from skin and gets blood and nerve supply from
Cutaneous sources
Walls of the scrotum
Thin skin
Tunica dartos (smooth muscle and connective tissue)
External spermatic fascia
Attaches the testis to the dorsal abdominal wall
Mesorchium
Attaches the testis to the mesonephric duct
Gubernaculum
A steering ligament that becomes the tail of the epididymis
Gubernaculum
Species that are “late descenders” and commonly suffer from cryptorchidism
Horses and boars
The cavity of the vaginal tunic is continuous with the
Peritoneal cavity
The proximal portion of the Gubernaculum becomes the
Proper ligament of the testis
The distal portion of the Gubernaculum becomes the
Ligament of the tail of the epididymis
The internal evagination of the the peritoneum contained in the evagination of the abdominal wall
Vaginal process
Forms as a result of the evagination of the abdominal wall containing the vaginal process
Cavity of the vaginal tunic
Layers of the vaginal tunic
Tunica vaginalis, parietal layer
Tunica vaginalis, visceral layer
Spermatic cord, testis, epididymis
Converge to form the spermatic cord
Mesorchium
Mesoductus deferens
Contents of the Mesorchium
Testicular artery
Pampiniform plexus
Testicular nerves
Lympahtics
Contents of the mesoductus deferens
Ductus deferens
Blood and nerve supply (from pelvic cavity)
Formed by the gap between the abdominal obliques
Deep inguinal ring
Structures surrounding the testes
Tunica vaginalis
Spermatic fascia
Cremaster muscle
Wall of the scrotum
Seminal vesicle is only in
Stallion
A paired accessory gland that lies dorsolateral to the neck of the bladder, wholly or partly within the genital fold
Vesicular gland
Accessory gland associated with the pelvic urethra
Prostate gland
Accessory gland on the dorsal surface of the pelvic urethra
Bulbourethral gland
2 parts of the urethra
Pelvic and penile
What goes through the inguinal canal but not the vaginal tunic?
Testicular artery
Nerve that travels with the cremaster muscle
Genitofemoral