HLED Chapter 3
This is the male anatomy chapter, make sure you go look at the pictures in the book, no doubt there will be matching questions!
44 Cards in this Set
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Testes
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Pair of male gonads;
Produce sperm and hormones
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Scrotum
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Pouch of skin where testes are stored
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Testosterone
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Major male Hormone produced by testes;
Produces secondary male characteristics
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Sperm
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Reproductive cells made in testes;
The sperm unites with the ovum
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Seminiferous Tubules
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Tubules in testes where sperm is made
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Interstial Cells
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Cell between seminiferous tubules that secrete testosterone and hormones
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Vasa Efferentia
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Larger Tubes within testes;
Sperm move here after being produced by seminiferous tubules
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Vas Deferens
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Tube that leads sperm upward from each testes
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Anorchism
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A male born without testes
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Cyptorchidism
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When testes have not dropped into scrotum
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Monorchidism
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Born with only 1 teste
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Testicular Failure
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Lack of sperm
Lack of hormone
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Empidytimitis
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Inflamed epididymis in testes
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Penis
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Male sex organ; becomes erect.
Also leads urine and sperm out of the body
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Glans
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Sensitive head of the peins
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Frenulum
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Tight, thin skin under penile glans
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Corona
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Ridge under head of the penis
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Foreskin
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Fold of skin covering penile glans;
Prepuce
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Shaft
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Cylindrical base of penis
Contain 3 columns of spongy tissue: 2 corpora cavernosa and 1 corpus spongiousm
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Urethra
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Tube that passes through body from bladder
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Erection
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Enlargement & Stiffening;
Blood engrorges spongy tissue
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Cyclic GMP
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Secretion without spongy tissue;
Facilitates erections
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Circumcision
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Surgical removal of foreskin
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Phimosis
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Penile foreskin that is too long and too tight
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Priapism
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Continual, undesired, painful erection lasting more than 4 hrs
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Peyonie's Disease
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Developing fibrous tissue within spongy colums
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Agenesis
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Undersized; non functioning penis
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Hypospadias
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Incomplete closure of urethra
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Epispadias
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Urine empties out the abdominal opening when urethra isn't formed properly
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Seminal Vesicle
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Gland and end of each vas deferens: secretes chemical that helps sperm become mobile
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Prostate
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gland beneath bladder;
produces some secretion
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Semen
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Mixture of fluid and sperm
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Cowper's glands
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2 small glands secrete alkaline fluid during arousal to balance acidic urine
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Bulbourethral glands
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(cowper's glands)
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Prostatitis
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Inflammation of prostate glands
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
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Enlargement of the prostate gland
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Interstitial Cell- stimulating hormone
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Pituitary hormone stimulates testes to secrete testosterone;
Also, Luteinizing hormones in females
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Spermatocytes
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Cells lining seminiferous tubules
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Orgasm
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Pleasurable sensations and contraction that release sexual tension
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Ejactulation
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Muscular expulsion of semen from penis
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Retrograde Ejaculation
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Passage of semen into bladder during ejaculation
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Anejaculation
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Lack of ejaculation during orgasm
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Male- Climacteric
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Vague period in male mid life where there are hormonal, psychological, and sexual changes.
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Testosterone Replacement Therapy
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Injections used to increase sex interest and potency in older men
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