Breast & Female GU Slides

Question 1

Menorrhagia

Answer 1

Regular intervals between periods but with excessive flow and duration (ex: you get your period every 28 days but bleed like crazy for the period days)

Question 2

Hypomenorrhea

Answer 2

Decreased flow during normal duration of regular period

Question 3

Metorrhagia

Answer 3

Irregular intervals of menses but with excessive flow and duration

Question 4

Polymenorrhea

Answer 4

Shortened intervals between periods, <19 to 21 days

Question 5

Menometorrhagia

Answer 5

Irregular or excessive bleeding during periods and between periods

Question 6

Oligomenorrhea

Answer 6

Lengthened intervals between periods, >35 days

Question 7

Post-coital bleeding

Answer 7

Bleeding following intercourse

Question 8

Amenorrhea

Answer 8

Absent period

Question 9

Gravida

Answer 9

Total # of pregnancies regardless of the outcome

Question 10

Parity

Answer 10

of deliveries, denoted as P _ _ _ _

Question 11

Primigravida

Answer 11

in or has experienced her first pregnancy

Question 12

Multigravida

Answer 12

more than one pregnancy

Question 13

Nulligravida

Answer 13

never and is not pregnant

Question 14

Multipara

Answer 14

delivered two or more pregnancies >20 weeks

Question 15

Nullipara

Answer 15

no pregnancy that progressed past 20 weeks

Question 16

Primipara

Answer 16

delivered one pregnancy >20 wks

Question 17

Parturient

Answer 17

currently in labor

Question 18

Puerperant

Answer 18

recently given birth (delivery to 42 days following)

Question 19

In GgPtpal,

G means?

Answer 19

total number of pregnancies

Question 20

In GgPtpal,

T means?

Answer 20

number of term pregnancies (37 weeks – 40 weeks and posterm)

Question 21

In GgPtpal,

P means?

Answer 21

number of preterm pregnancies(20 weeks – 36 6/7 weeks)

Question 22

How many weeks is considered pre-term?

Answer 22

20 weeks – 36 6/7 weeks)

Question 23

How many weeks is considered term?

Answer 23

37 weeks – 40 weeks

Question 24

In GgPtpal,

A means?

Answer 24

number of abortions (spontaneous or induced ending before 20 weeks) and ectopic pregnancies

Question 25

In GgPtpal,

L means?

Answer 25

L = living children

Question 26

The LMP is dated from the

a. first day of the last normal period
b. last day of the last normal period
c. first day of the last bleeding episode
d. last day of the last bleeding episode

Answer 26

a. first day of the last normal period

Question 27

What is “witch’s milk?”

Answer 27

if you squeeze the breast bud of a newborn, may have a white fluid – “witch’s milk”, usually disappears in 2 weeks – 3 months

Question 28

What is a supernumerary nipple?

Answer 28

May be normal variant but can also be associated with congenital renal or cardiac anomalies

Question 29

This represents one of the first signs of puberty in a female?

Answer 29

thelarche (breast buds)

Question 30

What glands in a female are located at 5 & 7 o’clock?

Answer 30

Bartholin glands- supply a mucus for the lubrication of the entrance to the vagina

Question 31

What glands in a female are located at 11 & 1 o’clock?

Answer 31

Skene’s glands- homologous to the prostate glands in males

Question 32

To check for cystocele or rectocele in a female, you should ask the patient to do what?

Answer 32

Bear down slightly

Question 33

To feel for pelvic musculature of a female, you should ask the patient to do what?

Answer 33

Kegel “like you are holding in urine”

Question 34

Which kind of speculum is often most suitable for examination of the nulliparous female?

a. Graves speculum
b. Pederson speculum
c. Morgans speculum
d. Ling speculum

Answer 34

b. Pederson speculum

Question 35

Which kind of speculum is often most suitable for examination of the parous female?

a. Graves speculum
b. Pederson speculum
c. Morgans speculum
d. Ling speculum

Answer 35

a. Graves speculum

Question 36

What is a Chadwick sign?

Answer 36

Bluish tint to cervix can be a sign of pregnancy

Question 37

Anteverted uterus

Answer 37

normal position of the uterus, tilted forward in relation to the direction of the vagina

Question 38

Anteflexed uterus

Answer 38

a forward angle of the fundus of the uterus in relation to the direction of the cervix

Question 39

Retroverted uterus

Answer 39

position of uterus when it is tilted backward in relation to the direction of the vagina (not always abnormal position)

Question 40

Retroflexed uterus

Answer 40

Backward angle of the fundus of the uterus in relation to the direction of the cervix. Usually only occurs when the uterus is retroverted.