XVI - Female Reproductive System

Question 1

Ovaries: ovarian follicles, simple cuboidal surface or germinal epithelium

Answer 1

outer cortex

Question 2

Ovaries: Loose connective tissue and large blood vessels

Answer 2

inner medulla

Question 3

Ovaries: increase in size, 80% of corpus luteum, aromatase conversion of androstenedione to estradiol

Answer 3

granulosa lutein cells

Question 4

Theca lutein cells, produce large amounts of progesterone and androstenedione

Answer 4

theca interna

Question 5

Ovaries: maintained by hCG for 4-5 months

Answer 5

corpus luteum of pregnancy

Question 6

Scar of connective tissue that forms at the site of a corpus luteum after its involution

Answer 6

corpus ablicans

Question 7

Fallopian Tubes: funnel-shaped with finger-like extensions (fimbriae)

Answer 7

infundibulum

Question 8

Fallopian Tubes: longest and expanded region where fertilization usually occurs

Answer 8

ampulla

Question 9

Fallopian Tubes: narrow part near the uterus

Answer 9

isthmus

Question 10

Fallopian Tubes: fused with uterus

Answer 10

intramural

Question 11

Fallopian Tubes: Mucosa

Answer 11

simple columnar epithelium in numerous branching, longitudinal folds

Question 12

Fallopian Tubes: ciliary movements sweep fluid toward the uterus

Answer 12

ciliated cells

Question 13

Fallopian Tubes: non-ciliated, secretes glycoproteins of nutritive mucus film that covers the epithelium

Answer 13

secretory peg cells

Question 14

Uterus: outer connective tissue layer

Answer 14

perimetrium

Question 15

Uterus: thick tunic of highly vascularized smooth muscle interwoven layers

Answer 15

myometrium

Question 16

Uterus: mucosa lined with simple columnar epithelium

Answer 16

endometrium

Question 17

Endometrium: supplied by straight arteries

Answer 17

basal layer

Question 18

Endometrium: supplied by spiral arteries, progesterone sensitive

Answer 18

functional layer

Question 19

Embryo Implantation: between implanted embryo and myometrium

Answer 19

decidua basalis

Question 20

Embryo Implantation: between embryo and uterine lumen which thins as the embryo grows larger

Answer 20

decidua capsularis

Question 21

Embryo Implantation: on the side of the uterus away from the embryo

Answer 21

decidua parietalis

Question 22

Embryo Implantation: site of exchange fro nutrients, wastes, oxygen and carbon dioxide between the mother and fetus and contains tissues from both

Answer 22

placenta

Question 23

Placenta: embryonic part

Answer 23

chorion

Question 24

Placenta: maternal part

Answer 24

decidua basalis

Question 25

Embryo Implantation: endocrine organ, produces hCG, a lactogen, relaxin, growth factors, estrogen, progesterone

Answer 25

placenta

Question 26

Lower cylindrical part of the uterus

Answer 26

cervix

Question 27

Cervix: simple columnar epithelium with many large, branched, mucus-secreting cervical glands

Answer 27

endocervical mucosa

Question 28

Cervix: area just outside the external os that shifts slightly with the cyclical changes in uterine size

Answer 28

transformation zone

Question 29

Cervix: non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium continuous with that of the vagina

Answer 29

ectocervical mucosa

Question 30

Cervix: mucus changes cyclically under the influence of

Answer 30

progesterone

Question 31

Vaginal wall lacks

Answer 31

glands

Question 32

Vaginal Wall Layers

Answer 32

mucosa (stratified squamous), muscular layer, adventitia

Question 33

Female External Genitalia: Epithelium

Answer 33

stratified squamous

Question 34

Female External Genitalia: space whose wall includes tubulo-acinar vestibular glands

Answer 34

vestibule

Question 35

Female External Genitalia: homologous and histologically similar to the skin of the scrotum

Answer 35

labia majora

Question 36

Female External Genitalia: homologous to penis

Answer 36

clitoris

Question 37

Highly modified apocrine sweat glands with 15-20 lobes of compound alveolar type glands

Answer 37

mammary glands