Male reproductive organs
Organa genitalia masculina · Mužské pohlavní orgány
Reproductive system · male only
Looks like
Two testes in a cooler outer sac, ducts, the prostate, and the penis.
What it does
Makes sperm and testosterone and delivers them.
Keeping it well
A new lump in a testis needs prompt checking; this cancer is usually curable. Condoms prevent infection. Sudden testicular pain is a surgical emergency — hours count.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Adrenal insufficiency (Addison's)
- Balanitis
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Bladder cancer
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Early puberty (precocious puberty)
- Epididymitis and orchitis
- Erectile dysfunction
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
- Hernia (inguinal, hiatal, umbilical)
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hydrocele
- Hyperthyroidism & Graves' disease
- Hypospadias
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Hypothyroidism
- Kawasaki disease
- Klinefelter syndrome (XXY)
- Lichen sclerosus
- Male hypogonadism
- Male infertility
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Metabolic syndrome
- Mumps
- Muscular dystrophy
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Penile cancer
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peyronie's disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Phimosis
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Postnatal depression
- Pre-eclampsia
- Premature ejaculation
- Priapism
- Prostate cancer
- Prostatitis & pelvic pain
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Testicular cancer
- Testicular torsion
- Tetanus
- Type 1 diabetes
- Undescended testis (cryptorchidism)
- Urethral stricture
- Urinary tract infection
- Varicocele
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)