Med Term Ch 9

Question 1

Amenorrhea

Answer 1

Absence of the menses; with out menstruation

Question 2

Amniocentesis

Answer 2

Puncture of the amnion, removal of fluids usually for testing

Question 3

Amnion

Answer 3

Amniotic sac that envelops the fetus

Question 4

Amniotic Fluid

Answer 4

Pertaining to the fluid sac that envelops the fetus

Question 5

Climacteric

Answer 5

the syndrome of endocrine, somatic, and psychic changes occurring at menopause in women

Question 6

Conception

Answer 6

Act of conceiving or becoming pregnant

Question 7

Dysmenorrhea

Answer 7

Difficult and painful menstruation

Question 8

Embryo

Answer 8

Developing organism from conception to eight weeks

Question 9

Endometrium

Answer 9

Mucous membrane forming the inner layer of the uterine wall

Question 10

Episiotomy

Answer 10

Surgical incision of the vulva (external genetalia) to prevent laceration (jagged wound, tearing) at the time of delivery

Question 11

Fetus

Answer 11

Unborn baby in uterus from eight weeks until birth

Question 12

Gestation

Answer 12

Pregnancy

Question 13

Gynecomastia

Answer 13

Excessive development of the male mammary gland (breast in male)

Question 14

Gynoplasty

Answer 14

Reparative or plastic surgery of the female genital organs

Question 15

Hysterocele

Answer 15

An abdominal or perineal (area between vulva and anus) hernia containing part or all of the uterus; protrusion of uterine contents into a weakened, bulging area of the uterine wall.

Question 16

Hysteromyoma

Answer 16

A myoma (benign tumor of muscle tissue) of the uterus

Question 17

Hysterorrhexis

Answer 17

Rupture of the uterus

Question 18

Involution

Answer 18

A decrease in size of an organ, as of the uterus following childbirth

Question 19

Labor

Answer 19

The physical efforts of expulsion of the fetus and the placenta from the uterus during parturition (process of labor and delivery);
to undergo the efforts of childbirth

Question 20

Mammalgia

Answer 20

Pain in the breast/mammary gland; mastodynia

Question 21

Mammopexy

Answer 21

Surgical fixation of a breast to its normal position

Question 22

Mammary

Answer 22

Pertaining to the breast or mammary gland

Question 23

Mastodynia

Answer 23

Pain in the breast/mammary gland

Question 24

Mastoncus

Answer 24

A tumor or swelling of the breast/mammary gland

Question 25

Mastopathy

Answer 25

Any disease of the mammary gland

Question 26

Mastoptosis

Answer 26

Pendulous condition of the breasts; sagging breasts/mammary glands

Question 27

Menometrorrhagia

Answer 27

Excessive and prolonged uterine bleeding occurring at irregular, frequent intervals

Question 28

Menopause

Answer 28

Cessation of menstruation

Question 29

Menorrhalgia

Answer 29

Painful menstruation/dysmenorrhea

Question 30

Menses

Answer 30

Periodic physiologic hemorrhage that occurs at four week intervals

Question 31

Menstruation

Answer 31

A cyclic shedding of the endometrial lining

Question 32

Metratrophy

Answer 32

Wasting away of the uterus

Question 33

Metrorrhagia

Answer 33

Uterine hemorrhage

Question 34

Multipara

Answer 34

A woman who has given birth at least twice

Question 35

Myometritis

Answer 35

Inflammation of the muscular wall of the uterus

Question 36

Neonatal

Answer 36

Pertaining to the recent period around childbirth

Question 37

Nullipara

Answer 37

A woman who has never given birth to a viable child

Question 38

Oligohydramnios

Answer 38

Scanty amniotic fluid

Question 39

Ovum

Answer 39

Female egg cell

Question 40

Parturition

Answer 40

The process of labor and delivery

Question 41

Perineum

Answer 41

Area between vulva and anus

Question 42

Peritoneum

Answer 42

Serous membrane coating the viscera (guts) and lining the abdominal cavity

Question 43

Placenta

Answer 43

The membranous vascular organ that permits metabolic interchange between fetus and mother

Question 44

Polyhydramnios

Answer 44

Excessive amount of amniotic fluid

Question 45

Postpartum

Answer 45

The period after birth

Question 46

Primigravida

Answer 46

A woman in her first pregnancy

Question 47

Pudenda

Answer 47

External female genitalia; vulva

Question 48

Puerperium

Answer 48

The state of a woman during childbirth or immediately thereafter; approximate six-week period lasting from childbirth to the return of normal uterine size

Question 49

Puerperal Sepsis

Answer 49

An infection acquired during childbirth or the six week period after birth when the uterus returns to normal size (sepsis-the presence in the blood or other tissues of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins0

Question 50

Spermatazoan

Answer 50

The mature male gamete or sex cell