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| presence of permits cord creates weak points in the abdominal wall and sometimes the passageway does not completely seal off after testes descend and protrusions of visceral tissues or organs occupy the inguinal canal (relatively common in males) |
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| Why are inguinal hernias rare in women? |
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| females have a very small inguinal canal |
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| The partition between the two testes is marked by a raised thickening in the scrotal surface called what? |
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| layer of smooth muscle that causes wrinkling of scrotal surface |
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| skeletal muscle that tenses the scrotum and pulls the testes closer to the body |
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| dense layer of connective tissue with numerous collagen fibers that cover each testis |
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| How many seminiferous tubules does a typical testis contain? |
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| What is the function of seminiferous tubules? |
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| What do the spaces between the seminiferous tubules contain? |
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| What is another term for interstitial cells? |
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| What do the interstitial cells in the spaces between the seminiferous tubules produce? |
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division of sex cells, where one cell divides twice to produce 4 cels with half the original number of chromosomes
division of sex cells that takes two divisions (1 and 2) and produces four cells with 23 chromosomes each (in humans) |
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| division of somatic (body) cells that contain 23 pair (46) chromosomes |
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| daughter cells that contain members of each chromosome pair (total 46) |
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| cells that contain only 1 member of each pair of chromosomes (23 total) |
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