4 - Sexual Anatomy

Question 1

What is the vulva?

Answer 1

The female external genitals

Question 2

Starting at the vagina, name structures radiating out laterally at the vulva

Answer 2

vagina
labium minor
Labium majora

Question 3

If you were to follow a path from the vagina to the ovaries, what would be the structures along the way?

Answer 3

• Vagina
• Cervix (at entrance to uterus)
• Uterus
• Fallopian tube
• Ovaries

Question 4

Where is the bartholin gland?

Answer 4

Just around the inner lips

Question 5

Where is the fourchette?

Answer 5

The ‘bottom’ of the vagina

Question 6

Where is the perineum?

Answer 6

The space between the vagina and anus or penis and anus

Question 7

What are the three components of the clitoris?

Answer 7

• Tip
• Shaft
• Crura (two longer spongy bodies that lie deep in the body and run from tip to either sides of the vagina)

Question 8

What are the vestibular bulbs?

Answer 8

Bulbs of the clitoris, two organs about the size and shape of pea pods. Erectile tissue, close to the crura of the clitoris

Question 9

What is the mons pubis?

Answer 9

A rounded fatty pad of tissue at front of body on top of pubic bones

Question 10

What are the labia?

Answer 10

Lips of vagina, rounded pads of fatty tissue

Question 11

What forms the clitoral hood?

Answer 11

The inner lips (labia minora) coming together

Question 12

Which labia is hairless, which is hairy?

Answer 12

Labia majora is hairy, labia minora is hairless

Question 13

What forms the perimeter of the vulvar vestibule?

Answer 13

The labia

Question 14

What is the hymen?

Answer 14

A thin membrane, which if present partially covers the vaginal opening. Also called cherry. Not a sign of virginity

Question 15

What is an annular hymen?

Answer 15

A ‘normal’ hymen that is open in an even circle

Question 16

What are two types of female circumcision?

Answer 16

Citoridectomy

Infibulation (The practice of excising the clitoris and labia of a girl and stitching together the edges of the vulva to prevent sexual intercourse)

Question 17

What is the female skene’s gland equivalent to in the male?

Answer 17

Prostate gland

Question 18

Skene’s gland is paraurethral. What does this mean?

Answer 18

Near the urethra.

Question 19

What is the anatomical term for the womb?

Answer 19

Uterus

Question 20

What is the cervix?

Answer 20

Narrow lower third of uterus

Question 21

What is the fundus?

Answer 21

Top of uterus

Question 22

What are the three layers of the uterus?

Answer 22

Endometrium
Myometrium
Perimetrium

Question 23

True or false? Fallopian tubes are lined with cilia?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

What section of the fallopian tube does fertilization usually occur in?

Answer 24

The infundibulum, section of tube closest to ovary

Question 25

What are fimbria?

Answer 25

Fingerlike projections on end of fallopian tube

Question 26

What are follicles of the ovaries?

Answer 26

Capsules that surround an egg

Question 27

What is a speculum pelvic exam?

Answer 27

Where a spatula is inserted into cervix and a sample is taken from uterus

Question 28

What is a bimanual pelvic exam?

Answer 28

Where a doctor uses his hands to feel in the vagina to cervix, looking for inflammation

Question 29

What is a speculum?

Answer 29

A metal or plastic instrument that is used to dilate an orifice or canal in the body to allow inspection.

Question 30

What type of cancer does HPV cause?

Answer 30

cervical cancer

Question 31

What test looks for cervical cancer?

Answer 31

The Pap test

Question 32

What is most often a treatment for cervical cancer?

Answer 32

hysterectomy

Question 33

What is an aerola?

Answer 33

The area surrounding the nipple

Question 34

What is a breast removal surgery called?

Answer 34

Radical mastectomy

Question 35

What is the function of precum?

Answer 35

To neutralize the acidic male urethra

Question 36

What is the glans?

Answer 36

The end, or tip of penis

Question 37

What is the meatus?

Answer 37

The urethral opening of the penis, semen and urine pass through

Question 38

What is the root of the penis?

Answer 38

Part of penis attached to the body

Question 39

Which part of the penis is the erectile tissue that contains most of the blood during erection?

Answer 39

Corpora cavernosa. There are two of these filling the top two thirds of the shaft.

Question 40

Where is the corpus spongiosum?

Answer 40

It surrounds the urethra in the shaft of the penis

Question 41

What are some benefits of circumcision?

Answer 41

- Less likely to get urinary tract infections - May transfer less HPV - HIV infection risk lower - No difference in sensitivity

Question 42

What are the seminiferous tubules? Where are they located?

Answer 42

Longs series of threadlike tubes in testes, manufacture and store sperm.

Question 43

What are interstitial cells (Leydig's cells)?

Answer 43

Produce testosterone, found in connective tissue lying between the seminiferous tubules

Question 44

What is the epididymis? Where is it?

Answer 44

Long tube coiled into a small crescent shaped region on the top and sides of the testis. Stores ripens and matures sperm

Question 45

Where does the vas deferens connect to?

Answer 45

Goes from the epididymis to the urethra at the prostate gland. The seminal vesicle flows into the vas deferens just before it opens into the urethra.

Question 46

What is the part of the vas deferens that travels through the prostate called?

Answer 46

The ejaculatory duct

Question 47

What are the seminal vesicles? Where are they?

Answer 47

Two saclike structures that lie above the prostate, produce about 70% of seminal fluid.

Question 48

What does the prostate do?

Answer 48

Secretes a milky alkaline fluid that is part of the ejaculate

Question 49

Where are Cowper's glands (bulbourethral glands)? Where do they empty into?

Answer 49

Below the prostate and empty into the urethra.

Question 50

What is a function of the vestibulary bulbs around the clitoris?

Answer 50

Erectile tissue