Female Reproductive and Sensory Organs

Eye

Cornea

1. Anterior corneal epithelium
2. Bowman's membrane
3. Stroma
4. Descemet's membrane
5. Corneal endothelium

Choroid

1. Vascular layer (arteries and veins around conjunctiva lax with melanocytes)
2. Choriocapillaris layer (capillary network in 1 flat)
3. Bruch's membrane

Retina

1. Nerve fiber layer
2. Ganglion cell layer
3. Inner plexiform layer
4. Inner nuclear layer
5. Outer plexiform layer
6. Outer nuclear layer
7. Outer limiting membrane
8. Rod and cone layer
9. Pigment epithelium

Eyelids

(Outside to inside):

1. Skin and dermis of TCL
2. Bundles of striated muscle (orbicularis oculi muscle)
3. Thickened set at the ends (eyelid plates with meibomian glands)
4. Mucous layer (conjunctiva)

Glands: Moll (sweat), Meibomian and Zeis (sebaceous)

Inner Ear

Above the sensory epithelium of the macula are otoliths (calcium carbonate crystalline bodies on a gelatinous glycoprotein substance).

Female Reproductive System

Glands

Skene's Paraurethral Glands

Duct epithelium: Transitional. Gland: Pseudostratified columnar mucosal epithelium.

Greater Vestibular (Bartholin's) Glands

(Branched tubulo-alveolar)
Duct epithelium: Transitional or stratified squamous epithelium (hymen) distally, mucous secreting epithelium. Gland: Simple columnar mucous epithelium.

Minor Vestibular (Huguier's) Glands (Tubular)

Simple mucous epithelium. Metaplasia = Cysts

Ovarian Follicles

Primary Oocyte Follicles

• Diplotene cell
• Flat layer of follicle cells

Primary Follicle

• Oocyte organelles and cytoplasm increase
• Pellucida-granular membrane
• Follicular cells
• Stromal cell-theca layer formation

Secondary Oocyte Follicles

• Antral follicular fluid accumulates
• Granulosa cells
• Theca layers increase in size

Graafian Follicle

• Primary oocyte (diplotene) - Secondary oocyte (metaphase II)
• Zona pellucida and corona radiata
• Large antral follicle
• Granulosa cells
• Theca layers
• Start of egg cell formation and radial zona pellucida and follicular fluid fertilization

Corpus Luteum (Yellow Body)

(Remains of the follicle)

• Transient endocrine gland
• Disintegration of granulosa and theca layers: input of blood and connective tissue
• Granulosa-lutein cells: progesterone and relaxin
• Theca-lutein cells: estradiol and progesterone
• No fertilization

Corpus Albicans

• Macrophages
• Fertilization-proliferation to 6th month as hormone synthesis