
The Female Reproductive Organs (Inner)
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Medical Name: Ovary
Function: Where the eggs are made, stored and prepared for despatch on a monthly cycle.

Medical Name: Fallopian Tube
Function: Brings the egg from the ovary to be fertilised by a sperm and then on to the uterus.

Medical Name: Uterus (or Womb)
Function: Where an egg fertilised by a sperm implants and the resulting baby grows.

Medical Name: Cervix
Function: The narrow opening where the uterus meets the top of the vagina.

Medical Name: Rectum
Function: Storage area for feces before they are expelled. Tube continues to up to colon.

Medical Name: Coccyx (Lower Spine)
Function: Part of the skeleton often called tailbone as it may be the remnant of a tail.

Medical Name: Bladder
Function: A hollow muscular organ that holds urine prior to being expelled.

Medical Name: Clitoris
Function: This is the visible tip of a touch sensitive organ that extends to, and surrounds the vagina.

Medical Name: Urethra
Function: A tube that facilitates passing of the urine in the bladder. The arrow points to the exit.

Medical Name: Skene’s gland
Function: Thought to be the source of female ejaculate (maps to the male prostate gland) and possible explanation of ‘G-Spot’.

Medical Name: Vagina
Function: An internal tube that facilitates sexual intercourse, birth and menstrual flow.

Medical Name: Labia Majora
Function: The larger outer lips of the vulva enclose and protect the internal organs.

Medical Name: Labia Minora
Function: The smaller inner lips of the vulva enclose and protect the internal organs.

Medical Name: Anus
Function: Circular muscular opening that controls the exit of feces from the rectum.
