2. • ANATOMY OF FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM
IT INCLUDE EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS
AND
INTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS
3. • EXTERNAL FEMALE GENITAL ORGAN
THE EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS INCLUDE
• THE MONS PUBIS,
• LABIA MAJORA,
• LABIA MINORA,
• BARTHOLIN GLANDS, AND
• CLITORIS.
THE AREA CONTAINING THESE ORGANS IS
4.
5. • THE EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS HAVE
THREE MAIN FUNCTIONS:
1.ENABLING SPERM TO ENTER IN THE
UTERUS
2 PROTECTING THE INTERNAL GENITAL
ORGANS FROM INFECTIOUS ORGANISMS
3 PROVIDING SEXUAL PLEASURE
6. • MONS PUBIS
IT IS A ROUNDED MOUND OF FATTY TISSUE
THAT COVERS THE PUBIC BONE. DURING
PUBERTY, IT BECOME COVERED WITH HAIR.
THE MONS PUBIS CONTAINS SEBACEOUS
(OIL-SECRETING) GLANDS THAT RELEASE
SUBSTANCES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN
SEXUAL ATTRACTION. THE MAIN FUNCTION
OF MONS PUBIS IS TO GIVE CUSHIONING
AND PROTECTION TO THE PUBIC BONE AND
7. • LABIA MAJORA
THESE ARE FLESHY FOLDS OF TISSUE THAT
ENCLOSE AND PROTECT THE OTHER
EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS. THEY ARE
COMPARABLE TO THE SCROTUM IN MALES.
THE LABIA MAJORA CONTAIN SWEAT AND
SEBACEOUS GLANDS, WHICH PRODUCE
LUBRICATING SECRETIONS. DURING
PUBERTY, HAIR APPEARS ON THE LABIA
MAJORA. THE ROUND LIGAMENTS
8.
9. IT IS UP TO 2 INCHES WIDE. THE LABIA
MINORA LIE JUST INSIDE THE LABIA MAJORA
AND SURROUND THE OPENINGS THE VAGINA
AND URETHRA. POSTERIORLY FUSES ACROSS
THE MIDLINE TO FORM A FOLD OF SKIN
CALLED FOURCHETTE. A RICH SUPPLY OF
BLOOD VESSELS GIVES THE LABIA MINORA A
PINK COLOUR. DURING SEXUAL
STIMULATION, THESE BLOOD VESSELS
BECOME ENGORGED WITH BLOOD, CAUSING
10. IT CONTAIN CONNECTIVE TISSUES,
NUMEROUS SEBACEOUS GLANDS,
ERECTILE MUSCLE FIBERS AND
NUMEROUS NERVE ENDINGS. IT IS
DEVOID OF HAIR FOLLICLES.
11. IT IS LOCATED BETWEEN THE LABIA MINORA
AT THEIR UPPER END, MEASURING ABOUT
2.5 CMS. IT IS A SMALL PROTRUSION AND
HOMOLOGOUS TO THE PENIS IN THE MALE.
IT IS FORMED BY TWO CORPORA
CAVERNOSA AND THE GLANS COVERED BY
THE PREPUCE. THE CLITORIS, LIKE THE
PENIS, IS VERY SENSITIVE TO SEXUAL
STIMULATION AND BECOME ERECT.
12. • VESTIBULE
IT IS TRIANGULAR SPACE BOUNDED
ANTERIORLY BY THE CLITORIS,
POSTERIORLY BY FOURCHETTE AND ON
EITHER SIDE BY LABIA MINORA.
13. THERE ARE FOUR OPENINGS:
1. URETHRAL OPENING-
THE OPENING TO THE URETHRA, WHICH
CARRIES URINE FROM THE BLADDER TO THE
OUTSIDE, IS LOCATED ABOVE AND IN FRONT
OF THE VAGINAL OPENING.
14. 2. INTROITUS -
THE OPENING TO THE VAGINA IS CALLED
THE INTROITUS. THE VAGINAL OPENING IS
THE ENTRYWAY FOR THE PENIS DURING
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE AND THE EXIT FOR
BLOOD DURING MENSTRUATION AND FOR
THE BABY DURING BIRTH.
15. 3. OPENINGS OF BARTHOLIN'S GLAND -
ONE PAIR OF BARTHOLIN GLAND SITUATED
ON EACH SIDE IN SUPERFICIAL PERINEAL
POUCH. EACH GLAND HAS A DUCT WHICH
OPENS INTO VESTIBULE OUTSIDE
THE HYMEN.
WHEN STIMULATED, THEY SECRETE A
THICK ALKALINE FLUID THAT SUPPLIES
LUBRICATION FOR INTERCOURSE.
16.
17. • PERINEUM
IT IS CONVENTIONALLY INCLUDED IN
VULVA. THE AREA BETWEEN THE OPENING
OF THE VAGINA AND BELOW THE LABIA
MAJORA, IS CALLED THE PERINEUM. IT
VARIES IN LENGTH FROM ALMOST THE
ANUS, 1 TO MORE THAN 2 INCHES (2 TO 5
CMS).
