GROSS ANATOMY Notes
TESTICULAR DESCENT
&
SPERMATIC CORD
, Testicular Descent
Study objectives:
• Where do the testes develop? Where & why do they descend?
• What is the chronology of descent?
• Factors responsible for the descent
• Development of inguinal canal
• Blood supply of the descending testes
• Abnormalities of descent of testes
• Descent of ovaries
, Epididymis
Ductus
Efferent Ductules
Deferens
(Vas)
Lobules
Tunica
Albuginea
& septa
, The Male Duct
System
TESTICULAR DESCENT
&
SPERMATIC CORD
, Testicular Descent
Study objectives:
• Where do the testes develop? Where & why do they descend?
• What is the chronology of descent?
• Factors responsible for the descent
• Development of inguinal canal
• Blood supply of the descending testes
• Abnormalities of descent of testes
• Descent of ovaries
, Epididymis
Ductus
Efferent Ductules
Deferens
(Vas)
Lobules
Tunica
Albuginea
& septa
, The Male Duct
System