The Reproductive System (The Human Body)

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Author(s): Kara Rogers
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 264

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
CHAPTER 1 ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM......Page 20
THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM......Page 21
EXTERNAL GENITALIA......Page 22
THE PENIS......Page 24
THE SCROTUM......Page 27
THE TESTES......Page 28
STRUCTURES OF THE SPERM CANAL......Page 32
ACCESSORY ORGANS......Page 36
EXTERNAL GENITALIA......Page 39
INTERNAL STRUCTURES......Page 41
ANDROGENS......Page 53
ESTROGENS......Page 58
PROGESTERONE......Page 62
GONADOTROPINS......Page 63
PUBERTY......Page 66
REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS AND SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS......Page 67
NORMAL VARIATIONS......Page 71
PHYSICAL AND BEHAVIORAL INTERACTIONS......Page 72
MENSTRUATION......Page 75
PHASES OF THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE......Page 77
HORMONAL CONTROL OF THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE......Page 79
OVULATION AND THE FERTILE PHASE......Page 81
MENARCHE......Page 82
MENOPAUSE......Page 83
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE......Page 88
SPERM AND OVA......Page 90
FERTILIZATION......Page 93
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS......Page 96
IMPLANTATION......Page 98
PREGNANCY......Page 99
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLACENTA......Page 100
CHANGES TO REPRODUCTIVE TISSUES......Page 105
PRENATAL CARE AND TESTING......Page 110
TWINS AND TWINNING......Page 114
OTHER MULTIPLE BIRTHS......Page 117
GENETIC AND CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES......Page 119
ABNORMALITIES IN MALES......Page 120
ABNORMALITIES IN FEMALES......Page 123
INTERSEXUALITY......Page 125
PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY......Page 134
DELAYED PUBERTY......Page 137
DYSMENORRHEA......Page 139
MENORRHAGIA......Page 140
METRORRHAGIA......Page 141
AMENORRHEA......Page 142
OLIGOMENORRHEA......Page 143
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME......Page 144
STEIN-LEVENTHAL SYNDROME......Page 146
HYDROCELE......Page 149
PRIAPISM......Page 150
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES......Page 152
SYPHILIS AND GONORRHEA......Page 153
GENITAL HERPES......Page 155
AIDS......Page 156
GENITAL WARTS......Page 159
CYTOMEGALOVIRUS AND HEPATITIS B......Page 160
PUERPERAL FEVER......Page 161
TUBERCULOSIS......Page 162
ORCHITIS......Page 163
LEUKORRHEA......Page 165
VAGINITIS......Page 166
VULVITIS......Page 167
CERVICITIS......Page 169
MASTITIS......Page 170
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE......Page 172
HYPERPLASIA AND MAJOR CANCERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS......Page 173
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA......Page 174
PROSTATE CANCER......Page 175
CERVICAL CANCER......Page 176
UTERINE AND OVARIAN CANCER......Page 177
INFERTILITY......Page 179
FEMALE INFERTILITY......Page 181
MALE INFERTILITY......Page 186
ASSISTIVE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION......Page 187
ECTOPIC PREGNANCY......Page 193
MISCARRIAGE......Page 198
PLACENTA PRAEVIA......Page 200
PLACENTA ACCRETA......Page 201
OTHER ABNORMALITIES OF PLACENTA......Page 202
ANOMALIES OF THE UMBILICAL CORD......Page 203
HYDRAMNIOS......Page 204
HYDATIDIFORM MOLE......Page 206
CHORIOCARCINOMA......Page 207
GESTATIONAL DIABETES......Page 208
PREECLAMPSIA AND ECLAMPSIA......Page 209
CHAPTER 7 ISSUES CONCERNING BIRTH CONTROL AND ABORTION......Page 212
HISTORY OF BIRTH CONTROL......Page 213
EARLY ADVOCATES......Page 215
THE POPULATION EXPLOSION......Page 218
BIRTH CONTROL AND HEALTH......Page 219
FAMILY PLANNING......Page 220
BREAST-FEEDING......Page 222
COITAL TECHNIQUES......Page 223
PERIODIC ABSTINENCE......Page 224
HORMONAL CONTRACEPTIVES......Page 225
INTRAUTERINE DEVICES......Page 228
VOLUNTARY STERILIZATION......Page 230
THE LEGALITY OF BIRTH CONTROL......Page 231
THE ETHICS OF BIRTH CONTROL......Page 232
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BIRTH CONTROL......Page 239
PROCEDURES......Page 241
LEGALITY OF ABORTION......Page 243
A DIVISIVE ISSUE......Page 245
CONCLUSION......Page 247
GLOSSARY......Page 249
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 252
INDEX......Page 254
BACK COVER......Page 266