chap 39 March

When stimulation levels off during the human sexual response, the person is said to be in which of the following phases?

Plateau

Which hormone is involved if a couple engages in the rhythm method of birth control?

Progesterone

A patient reports menstrual cramps. The nurse understands that this is due to:

Prostaglandins

The nurse is reviewing the functions of the ovaries, uterus, clitoris, and vagina with a group of nursing students. What would be the best response by a nursing student about the function of the uterus?

Receives the fertilized ovum and provides housing and nourishment for a fetus

During fetal development, the descent of the testes into what structure helps prevent injury to the sperm-producing cells?

Scrotum

After teaching a class on the female reproductive system, the nurse determines that the teaching was successful when the class identifies what as a primary function of the ovaries?

Secretion of estrogen and progesterone

Hormonal regulation of reproductive functions in both the male and the female are complicated processes. In the male where are the male sex hormones produced?

Testes

Ovulation is:

release of an ovum from the ovary.

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) stimulates the anterior pituitary to release which hormones? (Select all that apply.)

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) Luteinizing hormone (LH)

By about which day in the menstrual cycle does ovulation occur?

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The nurse is reviewing the structure and function of various organs in the female reproductive system. Which information should the nurse include about the ovum?

All the ova a female will ever have are present at birth

What occurs during andropause?

Atrophy of the seminiferous tubules

What would a nurse attribute to estrogen?

Breast growth

Which cells in the testes produce testosterone?

Leydig cells

In the male, interstitial cell stimulating hormone is released. The nurse identifies this as:

Luteinizing hormone

A group of students are reviewing information about the menstrual cycle. The students demonstrate understanding when they identify what as the onset of the menstrual cycle?

Menarche

During pregnancy, what becomes a massive endocrine gland?

Placenta

The nurse is discussing the human response to sexual stimulation with a client experiencing an arousal problem. In which phase of sexual response should the client begin to feel the effects of the sympathetic nervous system?

Stimulation

What factor might influence the release of the hormones necessary for the human reproductive cycle?

Stress

The human sexual response involves the activation of which system?

Sympathetic nervous system

After puberty, secondary male sexual characteristics can be maintained by:

androgens.

If pregnancy does not occur during the menstrual cycle, the corpus luteum involutes and becomes the:

corpus albicans.

Regular monthly menstrual cycles cease at the time of:

menopause.

During anatomy class, the students learn that what structure in the body is a muscular tube with a ciliated lining that is constantly moving?

Fallopian tube

When describing the process of fertilization, the nurse would explain that it normally occurs in which structure?

Fallopian tube