Downing Male vs Female Epithelium, SM, glands, & BVs. Katelyn Rogers.
Male Excretory Ducts of Testis
Tubuli Recti
Simple columnar
Ampulla
(many folds)
Rete Testis
Simple cuboidal
Ductuli
Efferentes
Simple columnar
-Tall: ciliated
-Short: microvilli
First place to see SM.
Pseudostratified columnar
-Basal
-Principle: stereocilia (long)
Thin circ SM
Pseudostratifed: stereocilia
(exception is ampulla)
3 layers SM:
-inner long (thin)
-Middle circ (robust)
-Outer long
Also skeletal musc: cremaster +
pampiniform plexus v’s
Isthmus
(some folds,
unbranched)
Intramural segment
(few folds)
Ductus
Epididymis
Ductus
Deferens
Accessory Glands
Seminal
Vesicle
Pseudostratified columnar
Elongated saccular organs fructose
SM:
-Internal circ/oblique
-External long
Prostate
Simple cuboidal to tall
columnar
Tubuloalveolar glands-citric
acid & AP
Prostatic concretionsglycoprotein
SM in capsule & stroma (a lot)
Bulbourethral
glands
Compound tubuloalveolar
gland
Female Ducts
Oviduct
Simple columnar
-Ciliated
-Secretory (PEG)
Simple columnar
-Decd ciliated
-Active sec
Simple columnar
-NO CILIA
-Secretory
Ampulla of oviduct has 2 layers of SM:
-inner circ (robust)
-outer long (thin, incomplete)
Endometrium
-Basal: Deep, not shed,
regenerating fxn
-Fxnal layer:
a. Superficial-straight
glands
b. Deep-spongy-edematortuous glands
Myometrium
Hypertrophy during
pregnancy
3 layers SM:
Uterus
Simple columnar
-ciliated at gland apex
-secretory
Simple tubular glands
-Mid = vascular
-Little near cervix
Ovary
Cortex: Simple cuboidal germinal
epithelium (is cont w/ simple
squamous epith (mesothelium) of
peritoneum
Medulla: BVs
Cervix
Simple columnar
-Secretory
-Some ciliated
No spiral a’s
Large, branching glands – occlusion 
Nabothian cytsts
SM irreg bundles
Cervical os
Stratified squamous nonkeratinizing
Vagina
Stratified squamous – Eglycogen; sloughed cells eosinophilic in follicular
stage.
Luteal phase basophilic sloughed cells.
Many bvs.
NO GLANDS
Interlacing SM:
-Inner circ (thin)
-Outer long (robust)
Skeletal M: bulbocavernosus  ostium
Extensive venous plexuses
Lower uterine seg,
cervical canal, &
vaginal portion