week 11 Female peritoenum

Question 1

What exists on the female external genitalia?

Answer 1

Mons pubis
Labia majora
labia minora
clitoris
vestibule of vagina
bulb of vestibule
greater vestibule glands

Question 2

What is the mons pubis?

Answer 2

a fatty eminence anterior to the pubic symphysis

it cushions the pubic symphisis and vulva during sexual intercourse

Question 3

What is the labia majora?

Answer 3

A fold of skin which is thicker anteriorly, which provides protection to the vaginal and urethral openings

Question 4

What is the split between the labia called?

Answer 4

The pudendal cleft

Question 5

What are sebaceous glands?

Answer 5

secret sebum (sweat)

Question 6

What are the comissures>

Answer 6

angles of the labia majora at the anterior and posterior edges

Question 7

What is the labia minora?

Answer 7

Folds of fat free hairless skin which are enclosed in the pudendal cleft within the labia majora

Question 8

What does the labia minora surround?

Answer 8

the vestibule

Question 9

what does the labia minora contain? and what does it consist of?

Answer 9

connective tissue with erectile tissue

Question 10

What is the clitoris?

Answer 10

An erectile organ where the labia minora meet anteriorly

consists of a root and body which are comprised of two crura

Question 11

What does the clitorus become anteriorly

Answer 11

The corpora cavernosa

Question 12

What is the litorus covered by?

Answer 12

ischiocavernosus muscle

Question 13

What is the body of the clitorus formed by?

Answer 13

crura

Question 14

What is the glans of the clitorus?

Answer 14

a small amount of erectile tissue caps the body of the clitorus

Question 15

What is the bulb?

Answer 15

erectile tissue that extends from the bulbs of the vestibule to the glans

Question 16

What is the bulb covered in?

Answer 16

bulbospongiosus muscle

Question 17

What is the frenulum?

Answer 17

fold of mucous membrane attaching the clitorus to the labia minora

Question 18

What is the vestibule?

Answer 18

It is the space/ cavity between the labia minora

Question 19

What does the vestibule contain?

Answer 19

opening of the vagina
urethra
ducts of the lesser and greater vestibular glands

Question 20

What is the hymen?

Answer 20

A thin fold of mucous membrane surrounding the vaginal orifice

Question 21

What are the bulbs of the vestibule?

Answer 21

Paired masses of elongated erectile tissue which exist either side of the vaginal orifice

Question 22

What are the vestibular glands?

Answer 22

Glands that secrete mucous into the the vestibule during sexual arousal
(both greater and lesser vestibular glands do this)

Question 23

What is the arterial supply to the vulva (external vagina)?

Answer 23

External and internal pudendal arteries
Labial artery
Clitoral artery

Question 24

What is the nerve supply to the female perienuem?

Answer 24

Anterior labial nerves
Posterior labial nerves
genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve
perineal nerve

Question 25

What is the function of the uterus?

Answer 25

site for reception, retention and nutrition of the fertilised ovum

Question 26

What is the uterus made up of?

Answer 26

Fundus | body

Question 27

What is the retrouterine pouch?

Answer 27

pouch connecting the rectum to the uterus, contains the sigmoid colon and the ileum

Question 28

What is the vesicouterine puch?

Answer 28

Empty puch between the bladder and the uterus

Question 29

What is the cervix

Answer 29

Is the opening of the vagina. Is continuous with the body and pierces the anterior wall of the vagina

Question 30

What are the internal and external os?

Answer 30

The lower is the external os and the upper is the internal os, they are the openings of the cervics

Question 31

What is the arterial supply to the uterus?

Answer 31

uterine arteries | Ovarian arteries

Question 32

What drains the uterus?

Answer 32

Uterine vein | Uterine plexus

Question 33

What is the nerve supply of the uterus?

Answer 33

uterovaginal plexus Sympathetics (T12-L1-2) Parasympathetics (S2-4)

Question 34

What are the layers of the Uterus?

Answer 34

Perimetrium Myometrium Endometrium

Question 35

What are the ligaments of the uterus?

Answer 35

The broad ligament | The round ligament

Question 36

What is the braod ligament?

Answer 36

A double layer of peritoneum extends from the sides of the uterus to the floor of the pelvis. assists with keeping the uterus in position also provides passage for ovarian vessels, nerves and lymphatics

Question 37

What is the Vagina?

Answer 37

A muscular membranous tube its upper half lies above the pelvic floor Its lower half lies within the perineum

Question 38

What are the four muscles which compress the vagina and act like sphincters?

Answer 38

Pubovaginalis external urethral sphincter urethrovaginal sphincter bulbospongiosis

Question 39

What is the function of the vagina?

Answer 39

Communicates with the cervical canal and with the vestibule of the vagina serves as an excretory duct for menstrual fluid forms the inferior part of the pelvic canal receives the penis and ejaculate during sexual intercourse

Question 40

What is the arterial supply to the vagina?

Answer 40

Vaginal arteries | branches of anterior division of internal iliac artery

Question 41

What is the nerve supply to the vagina?

Answer 41

Uterovaginal plexus Hypogastric plexus Pudendal nerve

Question 42

What are the uterine tubes?

Answer 42

They are the fallopian tubes Muscular tubes that are the pathway for sperm to travel to reach the ovum Provide nourishment for fertalised ovum and transports it to the uterus

Question 43

What are the four parts of the uterine tubes?

Answer 43

Infundibulum Ampulla isthmus uterine

Question 44

What is the arterial supply to the uterine tubes?

Answer 44

Anastomosing terminal branches of the ovarian arteries

Question 45

What kind of tissue makes up the vagina and what is its structure?

Answer 45

structure: muscular wall, smooth muscle made from longitudinal and circular layers. ciliated columnar epithelium Non-ciliated columnar epithelium

Question 46

What are the ovaries?

Answer 46

ovois glands which are the main female reproductive organ. | Produces ova and hormones

Question 47

Where do the ovaries attach?

Answer 47

to the back of the broad ligament by the mesovarium | attatched distally to the lateral wall of pelvis by the suspensory ligament

Question 48

How do the ovaries attach to the uterus?

Answer 48

By the ligament of the ovary

Question 49

What surrounds the ovaries?

Answer 49

Tunica albuguenia

Question 50

What is the arterial supply to the ovary?

Answer 50

Ovarian arteries and their branches

Question 51

What is the innervation of the ovaries?

Answer 51

``` Ovarian plexus vagus nerve (parasympathetic fibres) Sympathetics = T9-11 ```