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Chapter Two: Women's bodies Flashcards

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How many vaginas do kangaroos have?

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Three

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What is the vulva?

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the female external genitalia

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What is the pad of fatty tissue covered by skin and pubic hair?

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The Mons

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What is the labia?

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two pairs of skin folds that extend down from the mons on either side of the vulva.

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What is the labia majora (outer labia)?

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padded with fatty tissue and are hairy on the surfaces nearest to the thighs.

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What is labia minora (inner labia)?

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two thin folds of hairless skin that lie between the two outer labia.

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What is the vestibule?

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the area encircled by the labia.

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What is the process called Vasocongestion?

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during sexual arousal the inner labia swell and darken as they fill with blood.

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What is a labiaplasty?

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plastic surgery to reduce their inner labia or make them more symmetrical.

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what is a glans on female genitalia?

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the clitoris has a glans and erectile tissue that leads to erection in response to sexual arousal.

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What is the crura?

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the two corpora cavernosa of the clitoral shaft diverge from each other, forming the left and right crura.

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What is the frenulum of the clitoris?

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the underside of the clitoral glans is attached to the underlying portion of the labia minora by a fold of erotically sensitive tissue.

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What is the corpus spongiosum?

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within the glans is a body called CS (‘spongy body’) comprised of erectile tissue - a system of vascular spaces that becomes engorged with blood during sexual arousal.

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What is the corpus cavernosa?

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the tissue within the clitoral shaft, it lies side by side.

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Who founded the G-spot?

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Ernst Grafenberg

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14
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What is the G-spot?

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is hypothesized to be an area of heightened sensitivity to arousal located on the front wall of the vagina. the mechanism for orgasms through penetration of the vagina.

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What is the FSFI?

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the female sexual function scale that uses 19-item scale developed by Reed et al.

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What is the key sensory nerve tissue associated with arousal in the human glans of the clitoris?

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  • the dorsal nerves of the clitoris, branches off the aforementioned pudendal nerve.
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What are the Skene’s glands?

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also known as the paraurethral or vestibular glands, homologous to the male prostate, are one of the many, many proposed physical identities of the g-spot and are key to female ejaculation. (not the same as squirting) * Zlatko Pastor and Roman Chmel

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