Female And Male Reproductive

Question 1

Diseases of the reproductive system (male and female)

Answer 1

Infertility
Infection
Abnormalities
Tumors

Question 2

What is the number 1 disease of the reproductive system? And it’s progress?

Answer 2

Infertility. There’s been progress in treating female but no progress with male fertility

Question 3

Infections in male are due to what reasons?

Answer 3

Younger men: sexual intercourse (STI)

Older male: microbial pathogens

Question 4

Can STI be cured?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

State some of the possible infections male can get

Answer 5

Orchitis (testicles) 
Epididymitis (epididymis) 
Prostatitis (prostate) 
Urethritis (urethra) caused by chlamydia
Balantitis (STD: caused by bacteria or virus)

Question 6

List some male STD

Answer 6

Genital herpes (caused by HSV type 2) 
Gonorrea (burning urination and yellow discharge)
Syphilis (can lead to dementia if not treated in tertiary stage

Question 7

What is crytorchidism

Answer 7

A male abnormality where the testicle does not descend down during fetal development leading to inability of sperm production. This may lead to testicular cancer

Question 8

What’s the number 1 male reproductive cancer?

Answer 8

Prostate cancer

Question 9

What’s the most common male reproductive cancer in young men/

Answer 9

Testicular cancer

Question 10

What’s the most rare male reproductive cancer?

Answer 10

Penis and urethra cancer

Question 11

T/F

Prostate cancer is the number 1 leading cause of death in men

Answer 11

False. Prostate is the number 1 cancer in men but it’s actually the second leading cause of death in male. Smoking is the number 1 leading cause of death in men

Question 12

Where’s the vas deferen located?

Answer 12

Anterior to pubis symphysis

Question 13

What does the testes produce?

Answer 13

Sperm and male sex hormones (testosterone)

Question 14

What is the epididymis and it’s function?

Answer 14

Tightly coiled tubular structure that is located superoposterior of each testes. Sperm is transferred from testis and stored here. After the spam undergo final maturation, it gets ejaculated.

Question 15

How many parts is there to the epididymis?

Answer 15

3 parts: head, body, tail

Question 16

What is testicular cancer and the primary treatment for testicular cancer?

Answer 16

Testicular cancer is very rare, found commonly in men ages 20-34. Usually appears as a painless swelling or mass in the testicle. Surgery is the primary treatment

Question 17

Describe the vas deferens

Answer 17

Continuation from the tail of the epididymis. Long muscular tube that ascends in the posterior portion of the spermatic cord and travels superiorly over the sym. Pub to the bladder and ureters. It broadens and becomes the ampulla of the vas deferens.

Question 18

_______ joins with the ducts of the seminal vehicle to form the ejaculatory duct

Answer 18

Vas deferens

Question 19

______ is enclosed in the spermatic cord

Answer 19

Ejaculatory duct

Question 20

What’s the seminal vesicle and its location

Answer 20

Paired accessory glands consisting of coiled tubes. Located posterior to the bladder and superior to the prostate. It produces fructose and a coagulating enzyme for the seminal fluid that mixes with the sperm before ejaculation

Question 21

What’s the prostate , function and location

Answer 21

Largest accessory gland, secretes a slightly alkaline fluid that forms part of the seminal fluid.

Question 22

The penis is composed of 3 cylindrical masses. What are they

Answer 22

2 corpus cavernosa (upper/ anterior surface)
1 corpus spongiosum (under to posterior surface)
Distal end forms the glans penis

Question 23

List the female reproductive organs

Answer 23

Uterus
Ovaries
Fallopian tubes
Vagina

Question 24

What’s the responsibility of the female reproductive system?

Answer 24

Responsible for producing sex hormone and ova and to also protect / support the developing embryo

Question 25

T/F | During weeks 1-6 of pregnancy, there's no gender to the fetus

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Describe the uterus, location and function

Answer 26

Located between bladder and rectum | Responsible for protecting/nourishing fetus. Consisting of 2 regions (body and cervix)

Question 27

List the 3 uterine wall layers

Answer 27

Endometrium (inner layer) Myometrium (middle layer, THICKEST LAYER) Perimetrium (outer layer)

Question 28

What's the NORMAL location of the rectum to the sacrum?

Answer 28

Normally the rectum is anterior to the sacrum

Question 29

What is a retroverted uterus and is it normal?

Answer 29

A retroverted uterus is normal. It's when the uterus is tilted posteriorly and very little rectum is in front of the sacrum. This occurs normally due to the overstretching during childbearing years.

Question 30

Fallopian tube

Answer 30

Roughly 10cm long muscular tube | Responsible for transporting ova (from the ovaries) to the uterus

Question 31

Ovaries and it's function

Answer 31

Located on either side of the uterus . | Responsible for production of ova and the secretion of estrogen and progesterone

Question 32

Describe vagina (location and function)

Answer 32

Located between the rectum and bladder. | Function as receptacle for sperm and lower portion of birth canal

Question 33

How do doctors examine the vagina?

Answer 33

Doctor check by performing a digital sweep (finger) inside the vagina to check for abnormalities and/ or ridges

Question 34

What is the upper vaginal area called?

Answer 34

The vault or fornix. Consist of lateral, anterior and posterior fornix

Question 35

Normally, the vagina is collapsed on a CT. What is placed inside the vagina to give air gap to vagina to open up?

Answer 35

Tam pax or plastic rode

Question 36

When does uterine, vaginal and urinary abnormalities occur?

Answer 36

When the Müllerian ducts doesn't form the uterovaginal canal accurately.

Question 37

The inguinal nodes (groin area) is divided into what 2 categories?

Answer 37

Superficial (anterior/medial to common femoral vessel | Deep (few in numbers, at level of ischial tuberosity)

Question 38

Uterine fibroids

Answer 38

They're non-malignant tumors that grow from the muscle layers of the uterus.May lead to abnormal vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, and pregnancy problems. Uterine fibroids are found in more than 75 percent of women of reproductive age. (Are also called myomas or fibromyomas)

Question 39

What is endometriosis

Answer 39

Growth of cells normally found in the uterine lining are also growing in other areas of the abdomen

Question 40

What's is hydronephrosis

Answer 40

Water/fluid in kidneys

Question 41

Cervical cancer is the ________ common female cancer

Answer 41

8th

Question 42

Ovarian cancer is the ________ leading cause of female death

Answer 42

5th