MIDTERM Flashcards
TAH
TOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY
TVH
TOTAL VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY
PID
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
TL
TUBAL LIGATION
LTL
LAPAROSCOPIC TUBAL LIGATION
GC
GONORRHEA
PCO
POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN DISEASE
PCOS
POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN DISEASE SYNDROME
CxBx
CERVICAL BIOPSY
Bx
BIOPSY
ENDOBx
ENDOMETRIAL BIOPSY
LPD
LUTEAL PHASE DEFECT
ERT
ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY
STD
SEXUAL TRANSMITTED DISEASE
PMS
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
SAB
SPONTANEOUS ABORTION (MISCARRIAGE)
EAB
ELECTIVE ABORTION
SUI
STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE
EDC
ESTIMATED DAY OF CONFINEMENT (DELIVERY DUE DATE)
ROM
RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES
PIH
PREGNANCY INDUCED HYPERTENSION
C/S
CAESAREAN SECTION
U/S
ULTRASOUND
PROM
PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES
PP
POSTPARTUM
GFM
GOOD FETAL MOVEMENT (I.E W/ ULTRASOUND)
A: Fallopian tube
B: Uterus
C: Bladder
D: Vagina
E: Colon
F: Ovary
A: Fallopian tube
B: Ovary
C: Menstrual Flow
D: Vagina
E: Cervix
F: Uterus
A: Pineal
B: Thyroid
C: Parathyroid
D: Adrenal
E: Kidney
F + G: Ovary/Testes
H: Pancreas
I: Thymus
J: Pituitary
K:Hypothalamus
VAGINA
PASSAGE LEADING FROM UTERUS TO VULVA
CERVIX
LOWER NARROW PART OF THE UTERUS
DYSMENORRHEA
MENSTRUAL PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN
LUTENIZING HORMONE (LH)
A GONADOTROPIN PRODUCED IN ANTERIOR PITUITARY GLAND; ACUTE RISE OF LH TRIGGERS OVULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CORPUS LUTEUM. STIMULATES LEYDIG CELL PRODUCTION TESTOSTERONE; ACTS SYNERGISTICALLY W/ FSH
FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH)
A GONADOTROPIN PRODUCED IN ANTERIOR PITUITARY GLAND; REGULATES DEVELOPMENT OF GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE IN FEMALE AND STIMULATES PRODUCTION OF SPERMATOZOA IN MALE
ENDOMETRIOSIS
ABNORMAL GROWTH ENDOMETRIAL TISSUE OUTSIDE OF UTERUS
AMENORRHEA
THE ABSENCE OF MENSTRUATION FOR MORE THAN THREE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS
ENDOMETRIUM
INNER LINING OF UTERUS
OVULATION
RELEASE OF AN OVUM FROM THE OVARY
HYSTEROSCOPE
INSTRUMENT DESIGNED TO ALLOW VISUAL EXAMINATION OF UTERUS
(HYSTEROSCOPY= EXAMINATION OF UTERUS USING HYSTEROSCOPE)
LEUCORRHEA
THICK, WHITISH VAGINAL DISCHARGE
LEEP
LOOP ELECTROSURGICAL EXCISION PROCEDURE; MOST COMMON TX HIGH GRADE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA DISCOVERED ON COLPOSCOPIC EXAMINATION
TESTOSTERONE
STEROID HORMONE; PRODUCED BY TESTES (SL. ALSO ADRENAL CORTEX); DEVELOPMENT & MAINTENANCE OF MALE SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS
POST-MENOPAUSE
THE TIME 12 MONTHS AFTER LAST MENSES WHEN EGGS ARE NO LONGER RELEASED AND ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE LEVELS HAVE DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY
PLACENTA PREVIA
DURING PREGNANCY WHEN PLACENTA IS ABNORMALLY PLACED, AND PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY COVERS THE CERVIX
MENORRHAGIA
ABNORMALLY HEAVY OR EXTENDED MENSTRUAL FLOW
ANOVULATION
THE FAILURE, CESSATION, OR SUPPRESSION OF OVULATION
METRORRHAGIA
BLEEDING FROM THE UTERUS THAT IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH MENSTRUATION
PLACENTA
MEMBRANOUS VASCULAR ORGAN THAT DEVELOPS DURING PREGNANCY, LINING THE UTERINE WALL AND PARTIALLY ENVELOPING FETUS, TO WHICH IT IS ATTACHED BY UMBILICAL CORD. FOLLOWING BIRTH, PLACENTA EXPELLED.
CORPUS LUTEUM
A TEMPORARY ENDOCRINE STRUCTURE IN FEMALES INVOLVED IN PRODUCTION HIGH LEVELS OF PROGESTERONE AND MODERATE LEVELS OF ESTRADIOL AND INHIBIN A; SECRETES ESTROGEN TO INHIBIT FURTHER RELEASE OF GnRH (GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE) AND THUS SECRETION OF LH & FSH; NEW CORPUS LUTEUM DEVELOPS W/ EACH MENSTRUAL CYCLE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_luteum
EMBRYO
THE DEVELOPING ORGANISM FROM FERTILIZATION TO THE END OF 8TH WEEK (VS. FETUS= POSTEMBRYONIC, 9 WKS AFTER FERTILIZATION UNTIL BIRTH)
LAPAROSCOPY
SURGICAL PROCEDURE IN WHICH A SMALL INCISION IS MADE, USUALLY IN NAVEL, AND INSERT LAPAROSCOPE (VIEWING TUBE) TO EXAMINE & TAKE BIOPSIES IN ABDOMINAL AND PELVIC ORGANS W/ VIDEO MONITOR ON TUBE; (D/D PELVIC PAIN, I.E. OVARIAN CYSTS, ECTOPIC PREGNANCY, ETC.)
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Laparoscopy
MYOMECTOMY
SURGICAL REMOVAL OF A MYOMA (MUSCLE TISSUE TUMOR), ESPECIALLY EXCISION OF FIBROID TUMOR FROM UTERUS
FIMBRIA
A BORDERING FRINGE AT THE OPENING OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES
COLOSTRUM
FIRST MILK CONTAINS ANTIBODIES AND IMMUNE CELLS MAJOR COMPONENTS OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM, PROVIDE PASSIVE IMMUNITY; DELIVERS NUTRIENTS, GROWTH FACTORS
OXYTOCIN
POSTERIOR PITUITARY HORMONE; STIMULATES CONTRACTION SMOOTH MUSCLE OF UTERUS DURING LABOR AND FACILITATES EJECTION OF MILK FROM BREAST DURING NURSING
DILATION & CURETTAGE (D&C)
THE DILATION OF CERVIX AND SURGICAL REMOVAL OF PART OF LINING OF UTERUS &/or CONTENTS OF UTERUS BY SCRAPING AND SCOOPING; THERAPEUTIC GYNECOLOGICAL PROCEDURE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilation_and_curettage
PROGESTERONE
FEMALE STEROID SEX HORMONE; SECRETED BY CORPUS LUTEM OF OVARY AND PLACENTA; PREPARE UTERUS FOR IMPLANTATION OF FERTILIZED OVUM, TO MAINTAIN PREGNANCY, AND PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF MAMMARY GLANDS
ASHERMANS SYNDROME (AS)
IS A CONDITION CHARACTERIZED BY ADHESIONS AND/OR FIBROSIS OF ENDOMETRIUM MOST OFTEN ASSOCIATED W/ D&C (DILATION & CURETTAGE) OF INTRAUTERINE CAVITY; AKA INTRAUTERINE ADHESIONS (IUA), UTERINE/CERVICAL ATRESIA, TRAUMATIC UTERINE ATROPHY, SCLEROTIC ENDOMETRIUM, ENDOMETRIAL SCLEROSIS, INTRAUTERINE SYNECHIAE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherman%27s_syndrome
METROSTAXIS
HEMORRHAGE OF THE UTERUS
hCG
HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PRODUCED BY CELLS OF FETAL PLACENTA AND MAINTAINS FUNCTION OF CORPUS LUTEUM DURING FIRST WEEKS OF PREGNANCY
PID
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INFECTION OF WOMAN’S REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS; A COMPLICATION OF SOME STD’S (I.E. CHLAMYDIA, GONORRHEA); OTHER NON-STD INFECTIONS CAN ALSO CAUSE PID
ISCHEMIC PHASE
(MENSTRUAL CYCLE) PERIOD LASTING 1 OR 2 DAYS; COINCIDES W/ CONSTRICTION OF SPIRAL ARTERIES OF ENDOMETRIUM D/T DECREASED SECRETION ESTROGEN & PROGESTERONE; ISCHEMIA RESULTS IN SHRINKAGE & DEGENERATION OF ENDOMETRIUM.
ESTROGEN
ANY OF SEVERAL STEROID HORMONES PRODUCED CHIEFLY BY THE OVARIES & RESPONSIBLE FOR PROMOTING ESTRUS & DEVELOPMENT & MAINTANENCE OF FEMALE SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS
ESTRONE
AN ESTROGENIC HORMONE SECRETED BY OVARY & ADIPOSE TISSUE; ONE OF SEVERAL NATURAL ESTROGENS (INCL. ESTRIOL, ESTRADIOL); LESS ABUNDANT OF THREE; KNOWN TO BE A CARCINOGEN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrone
ESTRADIOL
A HUMAN SEX HORMONE & STEROID, MADE IN OVARIES; PRIMARY FEMALE SEX HORMONE; IMPORTANT IN REGULATION OF ESTROUS AND MENSTRUAL FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE CYCLES; ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT & MAINTENANCE OF FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TISSUES; IMPORTANT EFFECTS IN OTHER TISSUES INCLUDING BONE; NATURAL ESTROGEN (THREE MAIN: ESTRIOL, ESTRONE, ESTRADIOL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estradiol
ESTRIOL
ONE OF THREE MAIN ESTROGENS (ESTRONE, ESTRADIOL, ESTRIOL); PRODUCED IN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS DURING PREGNANCY AS IS MADE BY PLACENTA FROM AN ANDROGEN STEROID MADE IN FETAL LIVER AND ADRENAL GLANDS
CORTISOL
STEROID HORMONE, PRODUCED BY ADRENAL CORTEX; RELEASED IN RESPONSE TO STRESS & LOW BLOOD GLUCOSE; FUNCTIONS TO INCREASE BLOOD SUGAR, SUPPRESS IMMUNE SYSTEM, AID IN METABOLISM OF FAT, PROTEIN & CARBOHYDRATE; DECREASE BONE FORMATION
UTERINE FIBROIDS
(AKA UTERINE LEIOMYOMA, MYOMA) IS A BENIGN TUMOR OF SMOOTH MUSCLE LAYER (MYOMETRIUM) OF UTERUS; (LEIOMYOMA= “” ANYWHERE); CANCEROUS VERSION= LEIOMYOSARCOMA
BLIGHTED OVUM
FERTILIZED EGG ATTACHES TO UTERINE WALL BUT EMBRYO DOESN’T DEVELOP; CELLS DEVELOP TO FORM PREGNANCY SAC BUT NOT EMBRYO ITSELF; BLIGHTED OVUM OCCURS W/IN 1ST TRIMESTER; TYPE OF MISCARRIAGE
MYOMETRIUM
MIDDLE LAYER OF UTERINE WALL, CONSISTING MAINLY OF UTERINE SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; MAIN FUNCTION IS INDUCE UTERINE CONTRACTIONS
MENOPAUSE
ABSENCE OF MENSTRUATION FOR ONE YEAR; AVERAGE AGE IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES= 41-55 YEARS OF AGE (MEDIAN= 51)
PERIMENOPAUSE
TIME PRECEDING END OF MENSTRUATION AND USUALLY OCCURS 2-5 YEARS BEFORE TRUE CESSATION OF MENSTRUATION; OVULATION MAY STILL OCCUR; DECREASE HORMONE PRODUCTION; RISE FSH
GONORRHEA
TOP 2 STD (CHLAMYDIA); BACTERIA NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; TX W/ CEFTRIAXONE (ROCEPHIN)
