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 |
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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 |