Learning Objectives

• Describe and explain the structural organisation of the human pelvic cavity
• Start to identify important clinical relationships (in the female reproductive system)
• Understand the common features of the male and female reproductive systems
• Gain an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the anatomical organization of the human reproductive system
• Resources

Innervation

• Lumbar Plexus
• Sacral Plexus
• Coccygeal Plexus
• what forms the lumbosacral plexus?
• what are the 2 visceral plexuses?
• Nerve Naming

Arterial Supply

• where does the abdominal aorta bifurcate? what does it give rise to?
• where do these vessels bifurcate? what does it give rise to?
• what are the branches of the anterior trunk?
• what are the branches of the posterior trunk?
• how are gonadal arteries different?