The Reproductive System (2)

85 million

Each testicle makes an average of how much sperm a day?

Estrogen

What causes the ovum to mature?

Serosa

What is the outermost layer of the uterus?

Myometrium

What describes the middle, muscular layer, consisting of thick, smooth muscle tissue of the uterus?

Endometrium

What is the inner lining of the uterus?

Basilar layer

Which layer of the uterus is vascular but very thin and is a permanent layer adjacent to the myometrium?

Functional layer

Which layer of the uterus is regenerated and lost during each menstrual cycle?

Vagina

What is a muscular tube that extends from the cervix to the vaginal orifice in the perineum?

Perineum

What is the pelvic floor and is the serous outer lining around the uterus?

Hyumen

The vaginal opening is usually particular covered by a thin membrane called what which is ruptured by the first sexual intercourse or by tampon use?

Vulva

The female external genital structures may also be called the what?

Clitoris, labia majora and minora, Bartholin’s glands

What does the vulva include?

Clitoris

What is a small mass of erectile tissue anterior to the urethral orifice?

Labia majora and minora

What are paid folds of skin that extend posteriorly from the mons?

Bartholin’s glands

What are also called vestibular glands and are within the floor of the vestibule?

Mammary glands

Which glands produce milk for the nourishment of offspring?

Alveolar glands

Which glands produce milk after pregnancy?

Prolactin

What causes the actual synthesis of milk after pregnancy?

Oxytocin

The posterior pituitary gland secretes what to cause the release of milk?

Menstrual cycle

What includes the activity of the hormones of the ovaries and anterior pituitary gland and the resultant changes in the ovaries and uterus?

Menstrual phase

What is the loss of the functional layer of the endometrium and is the end of a menstrual cycle?

Follicular phase

What occurs when FSH stimulates growth of ovarian follicles and secretion of estrogen by the follicle cells?

Luteal phase

What occurs under the influence of LH and is where the reputed follicle becomes the corpus luteum and begins to secrete progesterone and estrogen?

Inhibin

What inhibits the secretion of FSH?

Relaxin

What inhibits contractions of the myometrium?

Amenorrhea

What is cessation of menses?

Areola

What is the pigmented area around the nipple?

Ovum

A mature follicle ruptures each month expelling what?

28

A menstrual cycle occurs on an average of how many days? 

Ovaries

Estrogen and progesterone are the two female hormones produced by what?

Mammary glands

What glands lie anterior to the pectoral muscles of the thorax, and are attached to them by connective tissue?

Vestibule

What best describes the entranceway into the vagina, between the two labia minora?

Urethral orifice

Which of the following best describes the opening into the urethra, just anterior to the vaginal orifice?

Bladder

Seminal vesicles are attached to vas deferens near the base of what?

Alkaline

Seminal vesicles secrete which type of fluid?

18

The ductus deferens is about how many inches?

Mons pubis

What is the area of adipose tissue and skin, covered with pubic hair, which overlies the pubic bone?