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99CNM Med Terms 9A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amenorrhea | temporary lack of menstration |
| Amniocentesis | puncturing the amniotic sac and withdrawing some fluid |
| Amnion | thin transparent sac containing the fetus and the fluid surrounding the fetus |
| Amniotic fluid | liquor amniii |
| Climacteric | change of life transition |
| Conception | penetration of an ovum by a spermatozoon |
| Dysmenorrheal | difficult or painful menstration |
| Embryo | is what an ovum becomes in the first two weeks of pregnancy |
| Endometrium | inside lining of the uterus |
| Episiotomy | an incision into the perineum |
| Fetus | called this in the 9th week when they embryo begins to look like a fetus |
| Gestation | another word to describe the period of time during pregnancy |
| Gynecomastia | excessive development of breasts in a male |
| Gynoplasty | plastic surgery of female reproductive organs |
| Hysterocele | a uterine hernia |
| Hysteromyoma | muscle tumor of the uterus |
| Hysterorrhexis | rupture of the uterus |
| Involution | the process that returns an enlarged uterus to its normal size |
| Labor | the period when gestation is complete; and includes the stages dilation, expulsion, and afterbirth |
| Mammalgia | painful breast |
| Mammary | pertaining to the mammary gland |
| Mammopexy | surgical correction of larger hanging breasts |
| Mastodynia | painful breast |
| Mastoncus | tumor of the breast |
| Mastopathy | disease of the mammary glands |
| Mastoptosis | pendulous breasts |
| Menometrorrhagia | excessive bleeding from the uterus during menstuation |
| Menopause | permanent cessation of menses |
| Menorrhalgia | painful menstruation |
| Menses | monthly flow of bloody fluid from the uterus |
| Menstruation | funciton of discharging the menses |
| Mentratrophy | wasting of the uterus |
| Metrorrhagia | uterine hemorrhage |
| Multipara | a woman who has delivered more than one child |
| Myometritis | inflammation of the myometrium |
| Neonatal | pertaining to the recent period around childbirth |
| Nullipara | a woman who has never bore a child |
| Oligohydramnios | scanty fluid in the amnion |
| Ovum | a female egg cell |
| Parturition | More commonly known as labor this is when a baby is born and the placenta expelled from the uterus. |
| Perineum | the pelvic floor structure; between the vaginal opening and the anus |
| Peritoneum | the membrane that coats the viscera and lines the abdominal cavity |
| Placenta | a vascular structure that allows the fetus in utero to absorb oxygen and nutrients and excrete carbon dioxide |
| Polyhydramnios | Too much amniotic fluid. |
| Postpartum | pertaining to after labor is completed |
| Primigravida | a woman who is pregnant with her first child |
| Pudenda | external genitals of a female |
| Puerperal sepsis | another term for childbed fever or death following childbirth |
| Puerperium | the six week period after childbirth where the uterus goes back to it's earlier nonpregnant condition |
| spermatozoon | the male germ cell |
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