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Female Reproductive Abner Diaz and Ivan Gutierrez
Organs Involved in the System
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Functions of the Organs
• The function of the external female reproductive structures (the genital) is twofold: To enable sperm to enter the body and to protect the internal genital organs from infectious organisms.
Vocabulary
• Anatomy• Bartholdi's glands• Birth control• Cervix• Fallopian tube
Diseases of the System
• Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)• Endometriosis
Facts
• Men and women are each born with two gonads (two internal sex organs)—the testes (plural) in men, and the ovaries in women.
• The human female is born with all the ova (eggs) she will ever have—about 2 million. These are immature. By puberty, she will have only about 400,000 ova, the rest having dwindled away. During her reproductive life, a woman will only ovulate (release from the ovary) about 400 eggs. Which eggs are selected to mature or ripen to ovulation is still a biological mystery.
References
• Google• Yahoo
