Chapter 8 Vocabs Deck 3

Question 1

Neonatal

Answer 1

Newborn

Question 2

Neonatology

Answer 2

Study of newborns

Question 3

Nulligravida

Answer 3

No pregnancies

Question 4

Nullipara

Answer 4

A woman who has never given birth to an infant

Question 5

Obstetrics

Answer 5

Branch of medicine dealing with the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth.

Question 6

Oligomenorrhea

Answer 6

Scanty menstrual flow

Question 7

Oogenesis

Answer 7

Formation of ova (egg cells)

Question 8

Oocyte

Answer 8

Immature ovum

Question 9

Oophorectomy

Answer 9

Removal of an ovary

Question 10

Oophoritis

Answer 10

Inflammation of an ovary

Question 11

Orifice

Answer 11

An opening

Question 12

Ovarian

Answer 12

Pertaining to an ovary

Question 13

Ovarian follicle

Answer 13

Developing sac enclosing each ovum within the ovary. Only about 400 sac mature in a woman’s lifetime.

Question 14

Ovary

Answer 14

• One of a pair of female organs (gonads) on each side of the pelvis.
• produces female hormone: estrogen and progesterone

Question 15

Ovulation

Answer 15

Release of an egg cell from an ovary

Question 16

Ovum

Answer 16

Mature egg cells. Plural: ova.

Question 17

Oxytocia

Answer 17

Rapid labor and childbirth

Question 18

Oxytocin

Answer 18

Released by the pituitary gland which stimulates the pregnant uterus to contract.

Question 19

Parturition

Answer 19

Act of giving birth

Question 20

Perinerorraphy

Answer 20

Suture of the perineum (following an episiotomy)

Question 21

Perineum

Answer 21

Area between the anus and vagina in females and the area between the anus and scrotal sac in males.

Question 22

Pituitary gland

Answer 22

Endocrine gland at the base of the brain

Question 23

Placenta

Answer 23

Vascular organ that develops in the uterine wall during pregnancy

Question 24

Pregnancy

Answer 24

• Condition of having a developing embryo and fetus in the body for about 40 weeks
• Gestation

Question 25

Prenatal

Answer 25

Pertaining to before birth

Question 26

Primigravida

Answer 26

A woman during her first pregnancy.

Question 27

Primipara

Answer 27

A woman who has given brith to her first child.

Question 28

Primiparous

Answer 28

Pertaining to a woman who has given birth to her first child.

Question 29

Progesterone

Answer 29

Hormone produced by the corpus luteum in the ovary and the placenta of pregnant woman.

Question 30

Pseudocyesis

Answer 30

False pregnancy

Question 31

Puberty

Answer 31

Point in life cycle at which secondary sex characteristics appear and gametes are produced

Question 32

Pyosalpnix

Answer 32

Pus in a Fallopian tube

Question 33

Retroversion

Answer 33

Tipping backward of an organ or a part of the body; as in the uterus

Question 34

Salpingectomy

Answer 34

Removal of a Fallopian tube

Question 35

Salpingitis

Answer 35

Inflammation of the fallopian tube

Question 36

Uterine serosa

Answer 36

Outermost layer surrounding the uterus

Question 37

Uterus

Answer 37

Hollow, pear-shaped muscular female organ in which the embryo and fetus develop; womb.

Question 38

Vagina

Answer 38

Muscular, mucosal tube extending from the uterus to the exterior of the body

Question 39

Vaginal orifice

Answer 39

Opening of the vagina to the exterior of the body

Question 40

Vulva

Answer 40

External female genitalia; include labia, clitoris,and vaginal orifice

Question 41

Vulvodynia

Answer 41

Pain in the vulva

Question 42

Vulvovaginitis

Answer 42

Inflammation of the vulva and vagina

Question 43

Zygote

Answer 43

Stage in prenatal development from fertilization and implantation up to 2 weeks.