Reproductive System

Question 1

What is the pelvis floor primarily formed by?

Answer 1

Two levator ani and two coccygeus muscles

Question 2

What is the diamond-shaped area at the inferior aspect of the pelvis?

Answer 2

Perineum

Question 3

Image of female perineum

Answer 3

Question 4

Image of male perineum

Answer 4

Question 5

Location of Levator Ani (image)

Answer 5

Question 6

Which of these muscles are NOT a perineal muscle?

Iliococcygeus

Corpus spongiosum

Pubocrectalis

Pubococcygeus

Answer 6

Corpus spongiosum

Question 7

Diagram of the peritoneum

Answer 7

Question 8

Image of male reproductive system

Answer 8

Question 9

Where do the urinary system and reproductive system intersect in men?

Answer 9

In the prostatic part of the urethra

Question 10

What ability do sperm cells gain when they are moved through the epididymis?

Answer 10

The ability to mov eand fertilize an egg

Question 11

What store sperm cells until ejaculation?

Answer 11

Epididymis

Question 12

What is the process in which sperm are produced from male primordial sperm cells, by way of mitosis and meiosis?

Answer 12

Spermatogenesis

Question 13

Where does spermatogenesis take place?

Answer 13

The thin seminiferous tubules

Question 14

Diagrams of the testis

Answer 14

Question 15

Where do sperm cells acquire their tails (which give them motility)

Answer 15

Epididymis

Question 16

What are the major components of the female reproductive system?

Answer 16

Ovary (on each side)

Uterus, vagina and clitoris in the midline

Question 17

What does the uterus lie between?

Answer 17

Bladder and rectum in the midline

Question 18

Name for early stage of an embryo, produced by cleavage of an ocum. It’s a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells

Answer 18

Blastocyst

Question 19

Name for the inferior part of the uterus

Answer 19

Cervix

Question 20

What is the site of egg production?

Answer 20

Ovaries

Question 21

Where are mature eggs ovulated into?

Answer 21

the periotoneal cavity, directed into the adjacent openings of the uterine (fallopian) tubes

Question 22

Like testes in men, the ovaries develope ______________________ and then _____ before birth bringing with them their vessels, lumphatics and nerves

Answer 22

high on the posterior abdominal wall

descend

Question 23

Unlike the testes, the ovaries do not __________. Instead they stop short an dassume a position on the lateral wall of the pelvic cavity

Answer 23

migrate through the inguinal canal into perineum

Question 24

Where does fertilization normally take place?

Answer 24

Ampulla

Question 25

What is another name for the rectouterine pouch and wher eis it situated?

Answer 25

Pouch of douglas situated between rectum and uterus

Question 26

What site does infection and fluids typically collect?

Answer 26

Pouch of douglas

Question 27

How is an abscess in the pouch of douglas typically dealt with?

Answer 27

Drainage through vagina or rectum

Question 28

Where does the right ovarian artery branch directly from? Where does it empty into?

Answer 28

Branches directly from the aorta and the right renal vein. Empties into inferior vena cava

Question 29

Where does the left ovarian artery branch from? Where does it drain into?

Answer 29

Branches directly from aorta, but the left voarian vein enters the left renal vein which then drains into vena cava. Turbulence from blood flow in and out of kidney

Question 30

Why are sympathetic fibers important (T10-L2)?

Answer 30

Move secretions from epididymis and associated glands into urehtra to form semen during ejaculation

Question 31

What is a major function of the parasympathetic fibers?

Answer 31

Stimulate erection

Question 32

What causes infertility?

Answer 32

A blockage of fallopian tubes, or uterus abnormalities

Question 33

What is the most common congenital uterine abnormality? Band blocks uterus into two sections

Answer 33

Septate uterus