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LOM CH. 9
MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
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Medical
Undergraduate 1
08/26/2012

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Term
BULBOURETHRAL GLANDS
Definition
A PAIR OF EXOCRINE GLANDS NEAR THE MALE URETHRA.  THEY SECRETE FLUID INTO THE URETHRA.  ALSO CALLED COWPER GLANDS.
Term
EJACULATION
Definition
EJECTION OF SPERM AND FLUID FROM THE MALE URETHRA.
Term
EJACULATORY DUCT
Definition
TUBE THROUGH WHICH SEMEN ENTERS THE MALE URETHRA.
Term
GLANS PENIS
Definition
SENSITIVE TIP OF THE PENIS.
Term
PENIS
Definition
MALE EXTERNAL ORGAN OF REPRODUCTION.
Term
PREPUCE
Definition
FORESKIN; FOLD OF SKIN COVERING THE TIP OF THE PENIS.
Term
SCROTUM
Definition
EXTERNAL SAC THAT CONTAINS THE TESTES.
Term
SEMEN
Definition
SPERMATOZOA (SPERM CELLS) AND SEMINAL FLUID (PROSTATIC AND SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETIONS).
Term

TESTIS

(PLURAL: TESTES)

Definition
MALE GONAD THAT PRODUCES SPERMATOZOA AND THE HORMONE TESTOSTERONE.
Term
VAS DEFERENS
Definition
NARROW TUBE (ONE ON EACH SIDE) THAT CARRIES SPERM FROM THE EPIDIDYMIS INTO THE BODY AND TOWARD THE URETHRA.  ALSO CALLED THE DUCTUS DEFERENS.
Term
BULBOURETHRAL GLANDS
Definition
A PAIR OF EXOCRINE GLANDS NEAR THE MALE URETHRA
Term
EPIDIDYMIS
Definition
ONE OF A PAIR OF LONG, TIGHTLY COILED TUBES ON TOP OF EACH TESTIS. CARRIS SPERM FROM THE SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES TO THE VAS DEFERENS
Term
FLAGELLUM
Definition
HAIR-LIKE PROJECTION ON A SPERM CELL THAT MAKES IT MOBILE
Term
PARENCHYMA
Definition
THE ESSENTIAL DISTINCTIVE CELLS OF AN ORGAN.
Term
SMINAL VESICLES
Definition
PAIRED SAC-LIKE MALE EXOCRINE GLANDS THAT SECRETE FLUID (A MAJOR COMPONENT OF SEMEN) INTO THE VAS DEFERENS.
Term
SEMININFEROUS TUBULES
Definition
NARROW, COILED TUBULES THAT PRODUCE SPERM IN THE TESTES
Term
SPRMATOZOON
Definition
SPERM CELL
Term
STROMA
Definition
SUPPORTIVE, CONNECTIVE TISSUE OF AN ORGAN, AS DISTNGUISED FROM ITS PARENCHYMA
Term
ANDROGEN
Definition
TESTOSTERONE IS ONE
Term
BALANITIS
Definition
INFLAMMATION OF THE GLANDS PENIS
Term
CRYPTORCHIDISM
Definition
CONGENITAL CONDITION WHERE ONE OR BOTH TESTICLES DO NOT DESCEND, BY THE TIME OF BIRTH, INTO THE SCOTAL SAC FROM THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY
Term
ORCHIECTOMY
Definition
CASTRATION IN MALES.  SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE TESTIS
Term
SEMINOMA
Definition
MALIGNANT TUMOR OF THE TESTICLES
Term
HYPOSPADIAS; HYPOSPADIA
Definition
CONGENITAL ABNORMALITY IN WHICH THE MALE URETHRAL OPENING IS ON THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE PENIS INSTEAD OF AT ITS TIP
Term
SYPHILIS
Definition
CHRONIC STD CAUSED BY A SPIROCHETE (SPIRAL-SHAPED BACTRIUM)
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