Prep U: Sexuality/Reproduction

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

An ovum is allowed to mature and is exposed to estrogen and progesterone in which endocrine gland like storage structure?

Follicle

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

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

What happens with the hormones associated with pregnancy once the fetus and the placenta have been expelled from the uterus?

Hormone levels decrease significantly

Damage to what component of the male reproductive system would result in a lack of testosterone

Leydig cells

Which hormone is responsible for ovulation

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

Insufficient levels of oxytocin would affect what event related to pregnancy?

Onset of labor contractions

After teaching a group of students about female reproductive hormones, the instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students identify which hormone as being primarily responsible for maintaining pregnancy?

Progesterone

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

Progesterone

When describing the menstrual cycle to a group of young women, the nurse explains that estrogen levels are highest during which phase of the endometrial cycle?

Proliferative

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

A nurse is teaching a sex education course in a local high school. What statement, made by the nurse, would be accurate regarding the human sexual response

Sexual climax occurs from massive sympathetic stimulation

What would castration prior to puberty result in? (Select all that apply.)

Sterility Failure to develop normal male characteristics

The human sexual response involves the activation of which system?

Sympathetic nervous system

Castration involves the removal of what structure of the male reproductive system

Testes

A client's sex glands have responded to stimulation from follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). What endocrine activity has directly preceded the release of FSH and LH?

The client's anterior pituitary gland was stimulated by gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).

When describing the effects of testosterone, which would be important to include? (Select all that apply.)

Vascular thickening Hair growth on the body Increased bone growth

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

The nurse is assessing a client who has recently become pregnant. What hormone activity is most likely to maintain the pregnancy until birth of the fetus?

high levels of estrogen and progesterone throughout pregnancy

What hormone is the first to be produced when the ovum is fertilized and implanted in the uterine wall?

human chorionic gonadotropin

When the nurse is interviewing an adolescent, the patient states that she experienced her first menstrual cycle at age 11. The nurse documents this as:

menarche

The nurse is preparing an outline for a class on the physiology of the male sexual response. Which event would the nurse identify as occurring first?

penile vasodilation

During pregnancy, what becomes a massive endocrine gland?

placenta

Ovulation is:

release of an ovum from the ovary.

What client should the nurse assess most closely to determine whether sexual activity will be safe?

the client with a cardiovascular disease

What factor is necessary for the triggering of menopause? (Select all that apply.)

A decrease in progesterone production A depletion of female ova A decrease in available estrogen

In an ideal 28-day menstrual cycle, the secretory phase occurs during which days?

15 to 28

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

Fallopian tube

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

Which phase of the human sexual response results from massive sympathetic stimulation

Climax

A client with a 28-day cycle reports that she ovulated on May 10. The nurse would expect the client's next menses to begin on:

May 24.