Urology

Question 1

What is the urinary bladder?

Answer 1

Hollow pouch with strong muscular distensible walls
Temporary reservoir for urine
Connects to the ureters and urethra

Question 2

What is the trigone of the urinary bladder?

Answer 2

Formed by the two ureteric orifices and internal urethral orifice
Includes ureteric orifices, internal urethral orifice, interureteric fold, uvula of bladder

Question 3

What are the ureteric orifices?

Answer 3

Openings for the ureters into the bladder

Question 4

What is the internal urethral orifice?

Answer 4

Opening for the urethra in the neck of the bladder

Question 5

What is the interureteric fold?

Answer 5

Superior limit of the trigone of the bladder

Joins the two ureteric openings

Question 6

What is the uvula of the urinary bladder?

Answer 6

Swelling in the posterior wall of the bladder at the internal urethral orifice

Question 7

What is the apex of the bladder?

Answer 7

Anterior part

Question 8

What is the body of the bladder?

Answer 8

Between apex and fundus

Question 9

What is the fundus of the bladder?

Answer 9

Posterior part furthest away from the internal uterthral orifice

Question 10

What is the neck of the bladder?

Answer 10

Tapers off into urethra

Contains involuntary internal sphincter (in the walls of the neck)

Question 11

What is the detrusor muscle?

Answer 11

Primary component of the wall of the urinary bladder

Question 12

What is the vesical fascia?

Answer 12

Loose CT surrounding the detrusor M

Question 13

Describe the male urethra

Answer 13

Conveyance of urine from the urinary bladder to the external urethral orifice at the glans penis
Includes the preprostatic urethra, prostatic urethra, membranous urethra, spongy urethra

Question 14

What is the preprostatic urethra?

Answer 14

In the neck of the bladder

Question 15

What is the prostatic urethra?

Answer 15

In the prostate gland
Communicates with the prostatic utricle and ejaculatory duct
Includes the urethral crest, prostatic sinus, seminal colliculus

Question 16

What is the urethral crest?

Answer 16

Median ridge that swells in the center of the prostate gland as the seminal colliculus
Surrounded on either side by the prostatic sinus

Question 17

What is the prostatic sinus?

Answer 17

Space on either side of the urethral crest and seminal colliculus
Accepts secretions from the prostatic ductules
Contains openings for the prostatic ductules

Question 18

The openings for the prostatic ductules are a drainage point for what?

Answer 18

Prostatic fluid into the prostatic sinus

Question 19

What is the seminal colliculus?

Answer 19

Rounded mound of urethral crest
Possesses three slit like openings
Contains prostatic utricle and openings for the ejaculatory duct

Question 20

What is the prostatic utricle?

Answer 20

Small blind ended pouch in the seminal colliculus

Embryological remnant of the uterovaginal canal

Question 21

What is the membranous urethra?

Answer 21

Short, through external urethral sphincter

Question 22

What is the spongy urethra?

Answer 22

Inside the corpus spongiosum

Includes the intrabulbar fossa, navicular fossa and urethral glands

Question 23

What is the intrabulbar fossa?

Answer 23

Internal expansion of the spongy urethra in the bulb of the penis
Receives secretions from the bulbourethral glands
Containing openings for the ducts of the bulbourethral glands

Question 24

What is the navicular fossa?

Answer 24

Internal expansion of the spongy urethra in the glans penis

Question 25

What are the male urethral glands?

Answer 25

Mucus secreting glands that empty directly into the spongy urethra

Question 26

Describe the female urethra

Answer 26

Conveyance of urine from the urinary bladder to the external urethral orifice in the vestibule of the vagina
Includes the paraurethral glands and urethral glands

Question 27

What are the paraurethral glands?

Answer 27

Homologous to the prostate gland

Secretions are conveyed via a common duct to an area near the external urethral orifice

Question 28

What are the female urethral glands?

Answer 28

Mucous secreting glands that empathy directly into the urethra