Female Reproductive Organs of the Lower Torso

The female reproductive system of the lower abdomen and pelvis contains all of the organs necessary for initiating fertilization and bringing the resultant pregnancy to term. Most of these are housed within the abdominal cavity or pelvic area, but the vulva (the opening to the vagina) is made up of several smaller parts which are external. The ovaries produce and release eggs which move along the fallopian tubes to the uterus; the uterus is a hollow, muscular organ in which a fertilized egg...

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Full Female Reproductive Organs of the Lower Torso Description

[Continued from above] . . . is nourished until birth. The vagina is a muscular passage which forms a part of the female sex organs; it connects the neck of the uterus (called the cervix) with the external genitals.