Pregnancy Review Flashcards
NORMAL CONTRACTIONS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH PROGRESSIVE CERVICAL DILATION.
BRAXTON HICKS
A MEASUREMENT OF THE OPENING AVAILABLE IN TEH CERVIX FOR THE PASSAGE OF UTERINE CONTENTS.
CERVICAL DILATION
A PROCESS IN WHICH TEH CERVIX SOFTENS AND THINS AND IS TAKEN UP INTO THE LOWER UTERINE SEGMENT.
CERVICAL EFFACEMENT
MUSCULAR ACTION OF THE UTERUS TO EXPEL THE FETUS.
CONTRACTION
A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE EVENT IN WHICH THE LARGEST DIAMETER OF THE FETAL HEAD ENCIRCIED BY THE VULVARING.
CROWNING
MOVEMENT OF THE FETUS THROUGH THE PELVIC CANAL CAUSED BY THE FORCE OF UTERINE CONTRACTIONS.
DESCENT
DIFFICULT OR OBSTRUCTED LABOR CAUSED BY A VARIETY OF ISSUES, EITHER WITH THE MOTHER OR FETUS.
DYSTOCIA
WHEN A FERTILIZED EGG ATTACHES SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE UTERUS, SUCH AS FALLOPIAN TUBE, ABDOMINAL CAVITY, OR CERVIX.
ECTOPIC PREGENCY
DELIVERY OF THE SHOULDERS AND BODY OF THE FETUS.
EXPULSION
A PREGNANT UTERUS THAT IS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE SACRAL PROMONTORY AND PUBIC SYMPHYSIS.
INCARCERATED GRAVID UTERUS
ROTATION OF THE FETAL HEAD AS IT MEETS THE MUSCULATURE OF THE PELVIC FLOOR.
INTERNAL ROTATION
A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE SETTING OF THE FETAL HEAD INTO THE BRIM OF THE PELVIS.
LIGHTENING
A COMPLICATION OF PREGNANCY WHERE THE PLACENA COVERS ALL OR PART OF THE OPENING TO THE CERVIX.
[LACENTA PREVIA
A FERTILIZED EGG (OVUM)
ZYGOTE
WHAT IS CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION (CPD)?
TEH HEAD OF THE FETUS IS LARGER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE PELVIC OUTLET
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRESENTING FETAL PART AND THE MATERNAL BODY PELVIS?
POSITION
REFERS TO THE PART OF THE FETUS THAT OVERLIES THE PELVIC INLET.
PRESENTATION
THE LEVEL OF THE FETAL HEAD RELATIVE TO THE LEVEL OF THE ISCHIAL SPINE OF THE MOTEHR’S PELVIS?
STATION
BEST FETAL POSITION FOR BIRTH?
OCCIPUT ANTERIOR
OCCURS WHEN THE FETUS’S SHOULDER BECOMES LODGED AGAINST THE MOTHER’S PUBIC BONE.
SHOULDER DYSTOCIA
WHEN THE FETUS PRESENTS FEET OR BUTTOCKS FIRST.
BREECH
SURGICAL EPISIOTOMY AND PERINEAL LACERATIONS ARE CLASSIFIED ACCORING TO THE DEPTH OF WOUND. WHICH CLASSIFICATION INVOLVES THE ANAL SPHINCTER?
THIRD DEGREE
WHAT IS A SHIRODKA’S PROCEDURE
CERVICAL CERCLAGE PERFORMED TO TREAT INCOMPETENT CERVIX
IN WHICH FDA PREGNANCY DRUG CATEGORY DOES FETAL ABNORMALITIES/RISKS OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS OF USE IN PREGNANCY
CATEGORY X
