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77 relations: Afferent nerve fiber, Anal canal, Anus, Autonomic nervous system, Benjamin Alcock, Bulbospongiosus muscle, Cengage, Childbirth, Clitoral erection, Clitoris, Coccygeus muscle, Constipation, Cortisone, CT scan, Cycling, Defecation, Demyelinating disease, Diabetes mellitus, Dorsal nerve of the clitoris, Dorsal nerve of the penis, Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve, Ejaculation, Erection, External anal sphincter, External sphincter muscle of female urethra, External sphincter muscle of male urethra, Fecal incontinence, Gluteal muscles, Greater sciatic foramen, Iliac artery, Inferior anal nerves, Internal pudendal artery, Internal pudendal veins, Ischial spine, Ischioanal fossa, Ischiocavernosus muscle, Labia, Latin, Lesser sciatic foramen, Levator ani, Lidocaine, Local anesthesia, Magnetic resonance imaging, Motor neuron, Multiple sclerosis, Nerve, Neurogenic bladder dysfunction, Neurovascular bundle, Obstetrics, Obturator fascia, ..., Onuf's nucleus, Pelvic floor, Penis, Perineal nerve, Perineum, Peripheral neuropathy, Piriformis muscle, Posterior cutaneous nerve of thigh, Posterior labial nerves, Posterior scrotal nerves, Pudendal anesthesia, Pudendal canal, Pudendal nerve entrapment, Robert Bentley Todd, Sacral plexus, Sacrococcygeal teratoma, Sacrospinous ligament, Sacrotuberous ligament, Sacrum, Sciatic nerve, Scrotum, Sex organ, Spinal cord, Spinal nerve, Vagina, Ventral ramus of spinal nerve, Vulvodynia. Expand index (27 more) »
Afferent nerve fiber
Afferent nerve fibers refer to axonal projections that arrive at a particular region; as opposed to efferent projections that exit the region.
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Anal canal
The anal canal is the terminal part of the large intestine.
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Anus
The anus (from Latin anus meaning "ring", "circle") is an opening at the opposite end of an animal's digestive tract from the mouth.
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Autonomic nervous system
The autonomic nervous system (ANS), formerly the vegetative nervous system, is a division of the peripheral nervous system that supplies smooth muscle and glands, and thus influences the function of internal organs.
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Benjamin Alcock
Benjamin Alcock (1801 – ?) was an Irish anatomist.
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Bulbospongiosus muscle
The bulbospongiosus muscle (bulbocavernosus in older texts) is one of the superficial muscles of the perineum.
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Cengage
Cengage is an educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education, K-12, professional, and library markets worldwide.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the ending of a pregnancy by one or more babies leaving a woman's uterus by vaginal passage or C-section.
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Clitoral erection
Clitoral erection is a physiological phenomenon where the clitoris becomes enlarged and firm.
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Clitoris
The clitoris is a female sex organ present in mammals, ostriches and a limited number of other animals.
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Coccygeus muscle
The Coccygeus is a muscle of the pelvic floor, located posterior to levator ani and anterior to the sacrospinous ligament.
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Constipation
Constipation refers to bowel movements that are infrequent or hard to pass.
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Cortisone
Cortisone, also known as 17α,21-dihydroxypregn-4-ene-3,11,20-trione, is a pregnane (21-carbon) steroid hormone.
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CT scan
A CT scan, also known as computed tomography scan, makes use of computer-processed combinations of many X-ray measurements taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional (tomographic) images (virtual "slices") of specific areas of a scanned object, allowing the user to see inside the object without cutting.
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Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.
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Defecation
Defecation is the final act of digestion, by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus.
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Demyelinating disease
A demyelinating disease is any disease of the nervous system in which the myelin sheath of neurons is damaged.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Dorsal nerve of the clitoris
The dorsal nerve of the clitoris is a nerve in females that branches off the pudendal nerve to innervate the clitoris.
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Dorsal nerve of the penis
The dorsal nerve of the penis is the deepest division of the pudendal nerve; it accompanies the internal pudendal artery along the ramus of the ischium; it then runs forward along the margin of the inferior ramus of the pubis, between the superior and inferior layers of the fascia of the urogenital diaphragm.
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Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve
The dorsal ramus of spinal nerve (or posterior ramus of spinal nerve, or posterior primary division) is the posterior division of a spinal nerve.
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Ejaculation
Ejaculation is the discharge of semen (normally containing sperm) from the male reproductory tract, usually accompanied by orgasm.
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Erection
An erection (clinically: penile erection or penile tumescence) is a physiological phenomenon in which the penis becomes firm, engorged, and enlarged.
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External anal sphincter
The external anal sphincter (or sphincter ani externus) is a flat plane of muscular fibers, elliptical in shape and intimately adherent to the skin surrounding the margin of the anus.
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External sphincter muscle of female urethra
The external sphincter muscle of female urethra is a muscle which controls urination in females.
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External sphincter muscle of male urethra
The external sphincter muscle of urethra (or sphincter urethrae membranaceae) surrounds the whole length of the membranous portion of the urethra, and is enclosed in the fasciæ of the urogenital diaphragm.
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Fecal incontinence
Fecal incontinence (FI), also known as anal incontinence, or in some forms encopresis, is a lack of control over defecation, leading to involuntary loss of bowel contents—including flatus (gas), liquid stool elements and mucus, or solid feces.
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Gluteal muscles
The gluteal muscles are a group of three muscles which make up the buttocks: the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus.
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Greater sciatic foramen
The greater sciatic foramen is an opening (foramen) in the posterior human pelvis.
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Iliac artery
In human anatomy, the iliac arteries are three arteries located in the region of the ilium in the pelvis.
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Inferior anal nerves
The Inferior rectal nerves (inferior anal nerves, inferior hemorrhoidal nerve) usually branch from the pudendal nerve but occasionally arises directly from the sacral plexus; they cross the ischiorectal fossa along with the inferior rectal artery and veins, toward the anal canal and the lower end of the rectum, and is distributed to the Sphincter ani externus (external anal sphincter, EAS) and to the integument (skin) around the anus.
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Internal pudendal artery
The internal pudendal artery is one of the three pudendal arteries that branches off the internal iliac artery, providing blood to the external genitalia.
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Internal pudendal veins
The internal pudendal veins (internal pudic veins) are a set of veins in the pelvis.
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Ischial spine
From the posterior border of the body of the Ischium there extends backward a thin and pointed triangular eminence, the ischial spine, more or less elongated in different subjects.
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Ischioanal fossa
The ischioanal fossa (formerly called ischiorectal fossa) is the fat-filled wedge shaped space located lateral to the anal canal and inferior to the pelvic diaphragm.
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Ischiocavernosus muscle
The ischiocavernosus muscle is a muscle just below the surface of the perineum, present in both men and women.
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Labia
The labia are part of the female genitalia; they are the major externally visible portions of the vulva.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lesser sciatic foramen
The lesser sciatic foramen is an opening (foramen) between the pelvis and the back of the thigh.
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Levator ani
The levator ani is a broad, thin muscle, situated on either side of the pelvis.
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Lidocaine
Lidocaine, also known as xylocaine and lignocaine, is a medication used to numb tissue in a specific area.
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Local anesthesia
Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in a specific part of the body, generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, that is, local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well.
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Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body in both health and disease.
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Motor neuron
A motor neuron (or motoneuron) is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon (fiber) projects to the spinal cord or outside of the spinal cord to directly or indirectly control effector organs, mainly muscles and glands.
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Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.
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Nerve
A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of axons (nerve fibers, the long and slender projections of neurons) in the peripheral nervous system.
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Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
Neurogenic bladder dysfunction, sometimes simply referred to as neurogenic bladder, is a dysfunction of the urinary bladder due to disease of the central nervous system or peripheral nerves involved in the control of micturition (urination).
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Neurovascular bundle
A neurovascular bundle (neuro: nerve, vascular: veins, lymph vessels, and arteries) is the combination of nerves, arteries, veins, and lymphatics in the body that travel together.
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Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
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Obturator fascia
The obturator fascia, or fascia of the internal obturator muscle, covers the pelvic surface of that muscle and is attached around the margin of its origin.
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Onuf's nucleus
Onuf's nucleus is a distinct group of neurons located in the ventral part (laminae IX) of the anterior horn of the sacral region of the human spinal cord involved in the maintenance of micturition and defecatory continence, as well as muscular contraction during orgasm.
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Pelvic floor
The pelvic floor or pelvic diaphragm is composed of muscle fibers of the levator ani, the coccygeus muscle, and associated connective tissue which span the area underneath the pelvis.
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Penis
A penis (plural penises or penes) is the primary sexual organ that male animals use to inseminate sexually receptive mates (usually females and hermaphrodites) during copulation.
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Perineal nerve
The perineal nerve is a nerve arising from the pudendal nerve that supplies the perineum.
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Perineum
The perineum is the space between the anus and scrotum in the male and between the anus and the vulva in the female.
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Peripheral neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is damage to or disease affecting nerves, which may impair sensation, movement, gland or organ function, or other aspects of health, depending on the type of nerve affected.
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Piriformis muscle
The piriformis is a muscle in the gluteal region of the lower limb.
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Posterior cutaneous nerve of thigh
The posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh (also called the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve) provides innervation to the skin of the posterior surface of the thigh and leg, as well as to the skin of the perineum.
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Posterior labial nerves
The posterior labial nerves are branches of the pudendal nerve.
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Posterior scrotal nerves
The posterior scrotal branches (in men) or posterior labial branches (in women) are two in number, medial and lateral.
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Pudendal anesthesia
Pudendal anesthesia, also known as a pudendal block, or saddle block, is a form of local anesthesia commonly used in the practice of obstetrics to relieve pain during the delivery of baby by forceps.
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Pudendal canal
The pudendal canal (also called '''Alcock's''' canal) is an anatomical structure in the pelvis through which the internal pudendal artery, internal pudendal veins, and the pudendal nerve pass.
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Pudendal nerve entrapment
Pudendal nerve entrapment (PNE), also known as Alcock canal syndrome, is an uncommon source of chronic pain, in which the pudendal nerve (located in the pelvis) is entrapped or compressed.
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Robert Bentley Todd
Robert Bentley Todd (9 April 1809 – 30 January 1860) was an Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy.
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Sacral plexus
In human anatomy, the sacral plexus is a nerve plexus which provides motor and sensory nerves for the posterior thigh, most of the lower leg and foot, and part of the pelvis.
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Sacrococcygeal teratoma
Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is a type of tumor known as a teratoma that develops at the base of the coccyx (tailbone) and is thought to be derived from the primitive streak.
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Sacrospinous ligament
The sacrospinous ligament (small or anterior sacrosciatic ligament) is a thin, triangular ligament in the human pelvis.
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Sacrotuberous ligament
The sacrotuberous ligament (great or posterior sacrosciatic ligament) is situated at the lower and back part of the pelvis.
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Sacrum
The sacrum (or; plural: sacra or sacrums) in human anatomy is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine, that forms by the fusing of sacral vertebrae S1S5 between 18 and 30years of age.
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Sciatic nerve
The sciatic nerve (also called ischiadic nerve, ischiatic nerve) is a large nerve in humans and animals.
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Scrotum
The scrotum is an anatomical male reproductive structure that consists of a suspended dual-chambered sack of skin and smooth muscle that is present in most terrestrial male mammals and located under the penis.
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Sex organ
A sex organ (or reproductive organ) is any part of an animal's body that is involved in sexual reproduction.
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Spinal cord
The spinal cord is a long, thin, tubular bundle of nervous tissue and support cells that extends from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column.
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Spinal nerve
A spinal nerve is a mixed nerve, which carries motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body.
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Vagina
In mammals, the vagina is the elastic, muscular part of the female genital tract.
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Ventral ramus of spinal nerve
The ventral ramus (pl. rami) (Latin for branch) is the anterior division of a spinal nerve.
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Vulvodynia
Vulvodynia is a chronic pain syndrome that affects the vulvar area and occurs without an identifiable cause.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudendal_nerve
