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medical terminology
| answer | hint |
|---|---|
| gynec/o | woman |
| culd/o | cul-de-sac |
| hyster/o | uterus |
| -salpinx | fallopian tube |
| arche/o | first, beginning |
| mamm/o | breast |
| mast/o | breast |
| men/o | menstruation |
| perine/o | perineum |
| -ial | pertaing to |
| colp/o | vagina |
| episi/o | vulva |
| hymen/o | hymen |
| cervic/o | cervix |
| trachel/o | cervix |
| -atresia | absence of normal body opening |
| salping/o | fallopian tube |
| oophor/o | ovary |
| peri- | surrounding; outer |
| dyspareunia | painful coitus |
| colpalgia | pain in the vagina |
| fistula | abnormal passage between 2 organs |
| menarche | 1st menstruation |
| vulva | external female genital organs |
| fallopian tube | tube extending from the uterus to an ovary |
| myometrium | muscular substance of the uterus |
| endometrium | the mucus membrane lining of the uterus |
| fundus | the bottom of an organ |
| uterus | hollow pear shaped female internal organ in which the fertilized ovum is implanted & the fetus develops |
| embryo | the developing organism from the 4h day after fertilization to the end of the 7th or 8th week |
| zygote | fertilized ovum |
| gamete | reproductive cell |
| ovary | one of the two female gonads |