Health Sciences 3300A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transverse Perineal Muscles, Urinary Meatus, Tunica Vaginalis

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3300A/B
• Professor: Dan Belliveau

Document Summary

While a psa test is a simple blood test, a positive result often leads to more invasive tests which could potentially lead to adverse health affect. Cardiovascular events (hematuria), blood clots, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, infection. Primary sex organs (organs in men and women that produce gonads) Gonads (testes) when they pair up create the human being testes are the primary sex organ. Primary role is to move sperm from site of reproduction in testes. Accessory glands prostate gland seminal vesicles bulbourethral gland. Ducts transport, store and assist in maturation of sperm. Accessory glands secrete most of the semen volume important for sperm survival. Penis is the copulatory organ, containing the urethra, a passageway for semen (and urine) Important because scrotum can rise or descend depending on environmental situations to maintain level of temperature. Sperm best produced a few degrees below body temp.