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FEMALE REPRODUCT
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTION SYSTEM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| AMNI/O | AMNION |
| CERVIC/O | CERVIX UTERI |
| COLP/O | VAGINA |
| VAGIN/O | VAGINA |
| GALACT/O | MILK |
| LACT/O | MILK |
| GYNEC/O | WOMAN,FEMALE |
| HYSTER/O | UTERUS |
| METRI/O | UTERUS |
| UTER/O | UTERUS |
| MAMM/O | BREAST |
| MAST/O | BREAST |
| MEN/O | MENSES,MENSTRUATION |
| METR/O | UTERUS;MEASURE |
| NAT/O | BIRTH |
| OOPHOR/O | OVARY |
| OVARI/O | OVARY |
| PERINE/O | PERINEUM |
| SALPING/O | TUBE |
| -ARCHE | BEGINNING |
| -CYESIS | PREGNANCY |
| -GRAVIDA | PREGNANT WOMAN |
| -PARA | TO BEAR |
| -SALPINX | TUBE |
| -TOCIA | CHILDBIRTH,LABOR |
| -VERSION | TURNING |
| ANTE- | BEFORE,IN FRONT OF |
| DYS- | BAD,PAINFUL,DIFFICULT |
| ENDO- | IN,WITHIN |
| MULTI- | MANY,MUCH |
| POST- | AFTER |
| PRIMI- | FIRST |
| INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS LINING OF THE CERVIX UTERI. | ENDOCERVICITIS |
| BENIGN UTERINE TUMORS COMPOSED OF MUSCLE AND FIBROUS TISSUE. | FIBRIODS |
| INABILITY OR DIMINISHED ABILITY TO PRODUCE OFFSPRING. | INFERTILITY |
| BEGINNING OF MENSTRUAL FUNCTION. | MENARCHE |
| SCANTY OR INFREQUENT MENSTRUAL FLOW. | OLIGOMENORRHEA |
| REGION BETWEEN THE VULVA AND ANUS THAT CONSTITUES THE PELVIC FLOOR. | PERINEUM |
| PERIOD DURING WHICH SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS BEGIN TO DEVELOP. | PUBERTY |
| TURNING OR STATE OF BEING TURNED BACK,ESPECIALLY AN ENTIRE ORGAN. | RETROVERSION |
| INABILITY OF THE FEMALE TO BECOME PREGNANT. | STERILITY |
| CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING LIFE. | VIABLE |
| TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BEFORE THE EMBRYO OR FETUS IS CAPABLE OF SURVIVING OUTSIDE THE UTERUS. | ABORTION |
| UTERINE ENDOMETRIUM SLOUGHS OFF BECAUSE OF HORMONAL STIMULATION. | MENSTRUAL DAYS 1 TO 5 |
| WHEN MENSTRUATION CEASES,THE ENDOMETRIUM BEGINS TO THICKEN AS NEW TISSUE IS REBUILT. | OVULATORY DAYS 6 TO 14 |
| THE EMPTY GRAAFIAN FOLICLE FILLS WITH A YELLOW MATERIAL AND IS NOW CALLED THE CORPUS LUTEUM. | POST OVULATORY DAYS 15 TO 28 |
| PREMATURE SEPARATION OF A NORMALLY SITUATED PLACENTA. | ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE |
| MEMBRANE,CONTINUOUS WITH AND COVERING THE FETAL SIDE OF THE PLACENTA. | AMNION |
| COMMON ABNORMALITY OF DELIVERY IN WHICH THE FETAL BUTTOCKS OR FEET PRESENT FIRST. | BREECH PRESENTATION |
| CONGENITAL CONDITION CHARACTERIZED BY PHYSICAL MALFORMATION AND SOME MENTAL RETARDATION. | DOWN SYNDROME, TRISOMY 21 |
| DIFFICULT LABOR.` | DYSTOCIA |
| MOST SERIOUS FORM OF TOXEMIA DURING PREGNANCY. | ECLAMPSIA |
| PREGNANCY IN WHICH THE FERTILIZED OVUM DOES NOT REACH THE UTERINE CAVITY. | ECTOPIC PREGNANCY |
| PREGNANT WOMAN. | GRAVIDA |
| WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN PREGNANT MORE THAN ONCE. | MULTIGRAVIDA |
| WOMAN WHO HAS DELIVERED MORE THAN ONE VIABLE INFANT. | MULTIPARA |
| WOMAN WHO HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO ONE OR MORE VIABLE INFANTS. | PARA |
| PROCESS OF GIVING BIRTH. | PARTURITION |
| CONDITION IN WHICH THE PLACENTA IS ATTACHED NEAR THE CERVIX AND RUPTURES PREMATURELY. | PLACENTA PREVIA |
| WOMAN PREGNANT FOR THE FIRST TIME. | PRIMIGRAVIDA |
| WOMAN WHO HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO ONE VIABLE INFANT, HER FIRST CHILD. | PRIMIPARA |
| PERIOD OF 42 DAYS AFTER CHILDBIRTH AN EXPULSION OF THE PLACENTA. | PUERPERIUM. |
| TRANSABDOMINAL PUNCTURE OF THE AMNIOTIC SAC UNDER ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE. | AMNIOCENTESIS |
| DELIVERY OF PRESSURIZED AIR OR GAS INTO A CAVITY TO ALLOW VISUAL EXAMINATION. | INSUFFLATION |
| TEST FOR PATENCY OF THE UTERINE TUBES MADE BY TRANSUTERINE INSUFFLATION WITH CARBON DIOXIDE. | TUBAL INSUFFLATION |
| VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE VAGINA AND CERVIX WITH AN OPTICAL MAGNIFYING INSTRUMENT. | COLPOSCOPY |
| SAMPLING OF PLACENTAL TISSUES FOR PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF POTENTIAL GENETIC DEFECTS. | CHORIONIC VILLUS SAMPLING (CVS) |
| CYTOLOGICAL STUDY USED TO DETECT ABNORMAL CELLS SLOUGHED FROM THE CERVIX AND VAGINA. | PAPANICOLAOU (PAP)TEST |
| RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF THE BREAST TO SCREEN FOR BREAST CANCER. | MAMMOGRAPHY |
| RADIOGRAPHY OF THE UTERUS AND UTERINE TUBES FOLLOWING CONTRAST MEDIUM. | HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY |
| SUTURING THE CERVIX TO PREVENT IT FROM DILATING PREMATURELY DURING PREGNANCY. | CERCLAGE |
| INCISION OF THE ABDOMEN AND UTERUS TO REMOVE THE FETUS. | CESAREAN BIRTH |
| SURGICAL CLOSURE OF THE VAGINAL CANAL. | COLPOCLESIS |
| EXCISION OF A CONE SHAPED PIECE OF TISSUE. | CONIZATION |
| SAMPLING OF FETAL BLOOD DRAWN FROM THE UMBILICAL VEIN. | CORDOCENTESIS |
| WIDENING OF THE CERVICAL CANAL WITH A DILATOR AND SCRAPING OF THE UTERINE ENDOMETRIUM. | DIALATION AND CURETTAGE (D&C) |
| INCISION OF THE PERINEUM FROM THE VAGINAL ORIFICE. | EPISIOTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE UTERUS | HYSTERECTOMY |
| HYSTERECTOMY WHERE THE CERVIX,OVARIES AND FALLOPIAN TUBES REMAIN. | SUBTOTAL HYSTERECTOMY |
| HYSTERECTOMY WHERE THE CERVIX IS REMOVED BUT THE OVARIES AND FALLOPIAN TUBES REMAIN. | TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY |
| TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY INCLUDING UTERUS,CERVIX, FALLOPIAN TUBES, AND OVARIES. | TOTAL PLUS BILATERAL SALPINGO-OOPHORECTOMY |
| TREATS VAGINAL YEAST INFECTIONS. | ANTIFUNGALS |
| TREAT SYMPTOMS OF MENOPAUSE | ESTROGENS |
| PREVENT OVULATION. | ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES |
| INDUCE LABOR AT TERM BY INCREASING THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF UTERINE CONTRACTIONS. | OXYTOCICS |
| CHEMICALLY DESTROY SPERM BY CREATING A HIGHLY ACIDIC ENVIRONMENT IN THE UTERUS. | SPERMICIDES |
| EXCISION OF A SMALL PRIMARY BREAST TUMOR. | LUMPECTOMY |
| BREAST ENLARGEMENT TO INCREASE BREAST SIZE. | AUGMENTATION |
| BREAST REDUCTION TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF A LARGE, PENDULOUS BREAST. | REDUCTION |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST. | MASTECTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST, NIPPLE, AREOLA, AND THE INVOLVED OVERLYING SKIN. | TOTAL MASTECTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST, INCLUDING THE LYMPH NODES IN THE UNDERARM. | MODIFIED RADICAL MASTECTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST, ALL LYMPH NODES AND CHEST WALL MUSCLES UNDER THE BREAST. | RADICAL MASTECTOMY |
| TREATS VAGINAL YEAST INFECTIONS. | ANTIFUNGALS |
| TREAT SYMPTOMS OF MENOPAUSE | ESTROGENS |
| PREVENT OVULATION. | ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES |
| INDUCE LABOR AT TERM BY INCREASING THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF UTERINE CONTRACTIONS. | OXYTOCICS |
| CHEMICALLY DESTROY SPERM BY CREATING A HIGHLY ACIDIC ENVIRONMENT IN THE UTERUS. | SPERMICIDES |
| EXCISION OF A SMALL PRIMARY BREAST TUMOR. | LUMPECTOMY |
| BREAST ENLARGEMENT TO INCREASE BREAST SIZE. | AUGMENTATION |
| BREAST REDUCTION TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF A LARGE, PENDULOUS BREAST. | REDUCTION |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST. | MASTECTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST, NIPPLE, AREOLA, AND THE INVOLVED OVERLYING SKIN. | TOTAL MASTECTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST, INCLUDING THE LYMPH NODES IN THE UNDERARM. | MODIFIED RADICAL MASTECTOMY |
| EXCISION OF THE ENTIRE BREAST, ALL LYMPH NODES AND CHEST WALL MUSCLES UNDER THE BREAST. | RADICAL MASTECTOMY |
| SURGICAL CREATION OF A SKIN FLAP USING SKIN AND FAT FROM THE LOWER HALF OF THE ABDOMEN. | TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE FLAP (TRAM) |
| EXCISION OF AN OVARY AND FALLOPIAN TUBE. | SALPINGO-OOPHORECTOMY |
| PROCEDURE THAT TIES THE FALLOPIAN TUBES TO PREVENT PREGNANCY. | TUBAL LIGATION |
| AB,Ab,ab | ABORTION |
| AI | ARIFICIAL INSEMINATION |
| BSE | BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION |
| CA | CANCER |
| D&C | DILATATION AND CURETTAGE |
| DUB | DYSFUNCTIONAL UTERINE BLEEDING |
| GYN | GYNECOLOGY |
| HRT | HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY |
| HSG | HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY |
| HSV | HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS |
| IUD | INTRAUTERINE DEVICE |
| CPD | CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION |
| CS, C-SECTION | CESAREAN SECTION |
| LMP | LAST MENSTRUAL PERIOD |
| OCPs | ORAL CONTACEPTIVE PILLS |
| Pap | PAPANICOLAOU |
| PMS | PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME |
| STD | SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE |
| TAH | TOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY |
| TRAM | TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE |
| TVH | TOTAL VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY |
| VD | VAGINAL DISEASE |
| CVS | CHORIONIC VILLUS SAMPLING |
| CWP | CHILDBIRTH WITHOUT PAIN |
| FEKG | FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM |
| FHR | FETAL HEART RATE |
| FHT | FETAL HEART TONE |
| FTND | FULL-TERM NATURAL DELIVERY |
| IUGR | INTRAUTERINE GROWHT RATE |
| LBW | LOW BIRTH WEIGHT |
| NB | NEWBORN |
| OB | OBSTETRICS |
| PARA 1,2,3 AND SO ON | UNIPARA,BIPARA,TRIPARA (NUMBER OF VIABLE BIRTHS) |
| UC | UTERINE CONTRACTIONS |
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