ALS 3304 - EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

ALS 3304 - EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Where are female reproductive organs located, and what does this allow?
Answer:
directly beneath the rectum, transrectal palpation

Question:
2. name the four layers (tubular portions) of the female tract.
Answer:
serosa, msucularis, submucosa, mucosa

Question:
3. what is the serosa? what cell type?
Answer:
single, outermost layer of the tubular portion; squamous cells

Question:
4. what is the muscularis?
Answer:
a double layer of smooth muscle (circular layer over longitudinal layer). one of the concentric layers.

Question:
5. what is the submucosa?
Answer:
third concentric layer, houses blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics

Question:
6. what is the mucosa?
Answer:
innermost concentric layer, secretory layer of epithelium

Question:
7. what is the purpose of the broad ligament?
Answer:
suspending the ovaries, oviducts, uterus, cervix, and anterior vagina

Question:
8. what is the broad ligament made of, and what does it house?
Answer:
double-layered connective tissue; houses vasculature, nerves, and lymphatics

Question:
9. what is the embryonic origin of the broad ligament?

,Answer:
peritoneum

Question:
10. what are the three parts of the broad ligament?
Answer:
mesovarium, mesosalpinx, mesometrium

Question:
11. what does the mesovarium do? what does it house?
Answer:
supports ovary, houses vessels that form hilus

Question:
12. what does the mesosalpinx do? describe it.
Answer:
supports oviduct; thin, serous portion, bursa-like pouch

Question:
13. what does the mesometrium do?
Answer:
supports uterine horns. it's also the largest and most conspicuous portion of the broad ligament.

Question:
14. what is the purpose of the ovary?
Answer:
to produce oocytes and hormones

Question:
15. what do the structures on the ovary control?
Answer:
reproductive cycle, behavior, and secretion of other hormones

Question:
16. what are the four layers of the ovary?
Answer:
germinal epithelium, tunica albuginea, ovarian cortex, ovarian medulla

Question:
17. what cell type is the germinal epithelium made of?
Answer:
a single layer of cuboidal cells

Question:
18. what does the tunica albuginea made of/what is its purpose?

, Answer:
outer connective tissue layer

Question:
19. what is the purpose of the ovarian cortex?
Answer:
houses oocytes and related structures (ovulation on outside of this layer)

Question:
20. what does the ovarian medulla contain?
Answer:
vasculature, nerves, lymphatics; it's also central part of the ovary

Question:
21. what is different about the mare, in terms of the ovary?
Answer:
the ovarian cortex and ovarian medulla are flipped. ovulation can only occur at the ovulation fossa.

Question:
22. what is the primary hormone of the follicle?
Answer:
estradiol

Question:
23. what is the primary hormone of the corpus luteum?
Answer:
progesterone

Question:
24. what is the corpus hemmorhagicum? corpus albicans?
Answer:
the blood-filled structure formed right after follicle rupture, a regressed scar-like structure after the CL
regresses

Question:
25. what are the four follicle classifications?
Answer:
primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary

Question:
26. what is the primordial classification of the follicle? what cell type?
Answer:
most immature, single layer squamous cells

Question:
27. what cell type is the primary classification of the follicle?