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Med Term Ch 9 Flashcards

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Amenorrhea

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Absence of the menses; with out menstruation

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Amniocentesis

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Puncture of the amnion, removal of fluids usually for testing

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Amnion

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Amniotic sac that envelops the fetus

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Amniotic Fluid

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Pertaining to the fluid sac that envelops the fetus

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Climacteric

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the syndrome of endocrine, somatic, and psychic changes occurring at menopause in women

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Conception

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Act of conceiving or becoming pregnant

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Dysmenorrhea

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Difficult and painful menstruation

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Embryo

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Developing organism from conception to eight weeks

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Endometrium

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Mucous membrane forming the inner layer of the uterine wall

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Episiotomy

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Surgical incision of the vulva (external genetalia) to prevent laceration (jagged wound, tearing) at the time of delivery

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Fetus

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Unborn baby in uterus from eight weeks until birth

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Gestation

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Pregnancy

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Gynecomastia

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Excessive development of the male mammary gland (breast in male)

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Gynoplasty

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Reparative or plastic surgery of the female genital organs

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Hysterocele

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An abdominal or perineal (area between vulva and anus) hernia containing part or all of the uterus; protrusion of uterine contents into a weakened, bulging area of the uterine wall.

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Hysteromyoma

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A myoma (benign tumor of muscle tissue) of the uterus

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Hysterorrhexis

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Rupture of the uterus

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Involution

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A decrease in size of an organ, as of the uterus following childbirth

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Labor

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The physical efforts of expulsion of the fetus and the placenta from the uterus during parturition (process of labor and delivery);
to undergo the efforts of childbirth

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Mammalgia

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Pain in the breast/mammary gland; mastodynia

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Mammopexy

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Surgical fixation of a breast to its normal position

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Mammary

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Pertaining to the breast or mammary gland

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Mastodynia

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Pain in the breast/mammary gland

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Mastoncus

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A tumor or swelling of the breast/mammary gland

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Mastopathy

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Any disease of the mammary gland

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Mastoptosis

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Pendulous condition of the breasts; sagging breasts/mammary glands

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Menometrorrhagia

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Excessive and prolonged uterine bleeding occurring at irregular, frequent intervals

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Menopause

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Cessation of menstruation

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Menorrhalgia

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Painful menstruation/dysmenorrhea

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Menses

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Periodic physiologic hemorrhage that occurs at four week intervals

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Menstruation

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A cyclic shedding of the endometrial lining

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Metratrophy

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Wasting away of the uterus

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Metrorrhagia

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Uterine hemorrhage

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Multipara

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A woman who has given birth at least twice

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Myometritis

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Inflammation of the muscular wall of the uterus

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Neonatal

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Pertaining to the recent period around childbirth

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Nullipara

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A woman who has never given birth to a viable child

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Oligohydramnios

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Scanty amniotic fluid

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Ovum

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Female egg cell

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Parturition

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The process of labor and delivery

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Perineum

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Area between vulva and anus

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Peritoneum

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Serous membrane coating the viscera (guts) and lining the abdominal cavity

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Placenta

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The membranous vascular organ that permits metabolic interchange between fetus and mother

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Polyhydramnios

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Excessive amount of amniotic fluid

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Postpartum

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The period after birth

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Primigravida

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A woman in her first pregnancy

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Pudenda

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External female genitalia; vulva

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Puerperium

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The state of a woman during childbirth or immediately thereafter; approximate six-week period lasting from childbirth to the return of normal uterine size

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Puerperal Sepsis

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An infection acquired during childbirth or the six week period after birth when the uterus returns to normal size (sepsis-the presence in the blood or other tissues of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins0

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Spermatazoan

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The mature male gamete or sex cell

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