Sexual Anatomy

The _________ is a hollow muscular chamber about the size and shape of a pear. This elastic organ is where an egg becomes fixed and matures as pregnancy progresses.

The _________ is the opening through which sperm passes to fertilize the egg and through which a baby exits the uterus in birth.

The ________ are no wider than the head of a pin and connect the ovaries to the uterus.

If an egg is not fertilized, the endometrium or __________ is shed during menstruation.

The _______are tubes in the testes that manufacture sperm.

There are about 1,000 of these tubes, curled and packed in the testes, and if stretched out, they would be approximately:

Sperm mature in the _________, which are highly coiled tubules located on the edge of both testes.

The _________ is the tube through which sperm pass on their way out of the scrotum and to the urethra.

During ejaculation, sperm move, via the urethra, out through the penis.

What is cut in a vasectomy?

The prostate is comparable in size to a:

Sperm have little or no motion ability until they are mixed with the secretions of the prostate and seminal vesicles.