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A&P LINK 7.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| BLASTOCYST | STAGE OF FETAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE ZYGOTE STAGE WHERE THE RAPIDLY DIVIDING CELL FORMS A MASS THAT IMPLANTS IN THE UTERINE LINING AND WILL BECOME THE EMBRYO AND PLACENTA |
| EMBRYO | STAGE OF FETAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER IMPLANTATION UNTIL THE 8TH WEEK OF GESTATION |
| FERTILIZATION | ACT AS A SPERM PENTRATING AN EGG AND BEGINNING THE DIVSION OF THE CELLS TO CREATE AN EMBRYO |
| FETUS | STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT AN EMBRYO BECOMES A FETUS AFTER 8 DAYS OF GESTATION |
| GAMETE | GENERAL TERM FOR THE MALE AND FEMALE SEX CELLS |
| GONAD | PRODUCE SEX CELLS AND SECRETE HORMONES |
| HUMAN CHORIONIC GONDADOTROPIN | HORMONE RELEASED BY AN EMBRYO THEN BY THE PLACENTA IT CAUSES THE CORPUS LUTEUM TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PROGESTERONE TO MAINTAIN THE UTERINE LINING |
| MEIOSIS | SEXUAL REPRODUCTION |
| MENARCHE | FIRST MENSTRUAL CYCLE |
| MENOPAUSE | AGE AT WHICH THE OVARIES CEASE PRODUCING HORMONES AND THE PERIOD STOPS |
| MENSTRUAL CYCLE | 28 DAY CYCLE PERIOD |
| MITOSIS | A SEXUAL REPRODUCTION |
| OOGENSIS | CREATION OF EGG CELLS OR OVA IN THE PRIMARY SEX ORGANS OF THE FEMALE BY MEIOSIS |
| OVULATION | ACT OF A MATURE EGG BEING RELEASED BY THE GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE IN THE OVARY OWING TO CHANGES IN LEVELS OF PROGESTERONE AND ESTROGEN |
| OVUM | EGG CELL |
| PREPUCE | FORESKIN ON A PENIS |
| SEMEN | FLUID CONTAINING SPERM |
| SPERM | MALE GAMETES PRODUCED BY THE TESTES |
| SPERMATOGENESIS | CREATION OF SPERM BY THE TESTES WHICH ARE THE PRIMARY SEX ORGANS OF MALES |
| ZYGOTE | CELL IN FETAL DEVELOPMENT THAT IS FORMED BY THE COMBINATION OF THE MALE AND FEMALE CHROMOSOMES DURING FERTILIZATION |
| AMENORRHEA | ABSENCE OF MENSTRUATION |
| ANORCHIDISM | FAILURE OF ONE OR BOTH TESTES TO DEVELOP |
| BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY | ENLARGEMENT OF PROSTATE GLAND |
| BREAST CANCER | MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE BREAST |
| ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE | RESULT OF PLACENTA PULLING AWAY FROM UTERINE WALL LEAVING IN THE FETUS WITHOUT A SUPPLY OF OXYGEN OR NUTRIENTS CAUSING SEVERE BLEEDING IN THE MOTHER |
| BREECH BIRTH | DELIVERY OF THE FETUS IN A POSITION OTHER THAN HEAD FIRST |
| CERIVAL CANCER | MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE CERVIX |
| CRPTORCHIDISM | FAILURE OF THE TESTES TO DESEND INTO THE SCROTUM |
| ECLAMPSIA | SEIZURES DURING THE PREGNANCY USUALLY CAUSED BY PREECLAMPSIA |
| ECTOPIC PREGNANCY | IMPLANTATION OF A FERTILIZED EGG IN A PLACE OTHER THAN UTERUS MOST COMMONLY IN FALLOPIAN TUBE |
| ENDOMETRIOSIS | GROWTH OF UTERINE TISSUE OUTSIDE THE UTERUS |
| OVARIAN CYST | FLUID FILLED SACS ON OVARY THAT MAY CAUSE PAIN ABNORMAL BLEEDING CRAMPING |
| PREECLAMPSIA | HYPERTENSION VISION CHANGES HEADACHE DURING PREGNANCY |
| TESTICULAR CANCER | MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE TESTIS |