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Flashcards in Pelvic Floor Muscles Deck (11):
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Female Urogenital Triangle

Superficial 1st Layer

  • Superficial transverse perineal (helps stabilize perineal body)
  • Bulbocavernosus (helps with vaginal sphincter and assists in erection of clitoris in women and penis in men - bulbospongiosus)
  • Ischiocavernosus (in women maintains clitoral erection and in men maintains penal erection

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Female Urogenital Triangle

Deep Layer (2nd Layer)

  • Deep Transverse Perineal (compresses ventral wall and assists with continence
  • Compressor Urethrae (compresses urethra and assists with continence)
  • Sphincter Urethrae (closes urethra lumen and helps support bladder)

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Pelvic Diaphragm

Deepest Layer (3rd Layer)

  • levator ani
    • Pubococcygeus
    • Iliococcygeus (elevates pelvic floor)
    • Puborectalis (Sphincter vagina & urethra)
    • Pubovaginalis

 

  •     -obturator internus
  •     -coccygeous

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Superficial transverse perineal

helps stabilize perineal body

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Bulbocavernosus

helps with vaginal sphincter and assists in erection of clitoris in women and penis in men - bulbospongiosus

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Ischiocavernosus

in women maintains clitoral erection and in men maintains penal erection

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Deep Transverse Perineal

compresses ventral wall and assists with continence

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Compressor Urethrae

compresses urethra and assists with continence

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Sphincter Urethrae

closes urethra lumen and helps support bladder

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Puborectalis

Sphincter vagina & urethra)

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Iliococcygeus

elevates pelvic floor

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