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Pudendal
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Female external genitalia
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clitoris urethra vaginal opening anus |
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Perineum
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Region between the vaginal lip & anus
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Peritoneum
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A membrane coating the viscera and lining the abdominal cavity
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Episiotomy
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Incision of the perineum to limit injury of the pelvic outlet
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Involution
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Process that reduces the uterus to its normal nonpregnant size following childbirth
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Puerperium
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A 6-week period after childbirth when involution takes place
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Antepartum
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The period in the pregnancy occurring before labor
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NulliParra
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Has never given birth to a viable child
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Premipara
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A woman who is pregnant for the first time ever
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Lesion
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Area of unhealthy (morbid) tissue
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Polyp
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Tumor on a stem or little foot
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papilla
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Nipple like protuberances
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Papilloma
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Hypertrophied papilla covered by a layer of skin
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Papule
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Small, elevated red lesion on the skin
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Benign
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Not cancerous
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Malignant
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Bad kind
threatening death |
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Neoplasm
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New,
abnormal tissue formation tumor |
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Distal
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Farthest from the trunk
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Dorsal
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Back
backside |
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Lateral
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Farther from the midline
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Medial
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Nearer to the midline
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Proximal
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Nearest to the attachment point
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Ventral
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Front
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climacteric
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Change of life transition.
For female |
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episiotomi
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Menopause
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Permanent cessation of menses
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Parturition
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Labor
childbirth labor |
Related to partum (postpartum) |
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puerperium
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Six-week period after childbirth
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when involution takes place |
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Malaise
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Vague sensation of not feeling well
ill at ease (French) |
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Nausea
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Sickness of the stomach/desire to vomit
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Emesis
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Vomit
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pyrexia
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Elevated body temperature
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Anorexia
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Loss of appetite
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Tinnitus
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Ringing in the ears
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pyretolysis
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Reduction of fever
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Cheyene-Stokes respiration
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Breathing that reaches a climax, then ceases before beginning again
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Rash (description)
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what is Reddened skin called
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Hypothermia
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Hypo 90ｰF
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Excrescence
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To grow out of
-disfiguring out growth -useless outgrowth |
A wart-etc |
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Infiltrate
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Slipping into and between normal cells
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Metastasis
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Cells reocate to new location:
generally carcinomas |
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Crescence
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To grow
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Condyloma
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Wart like growth around the anus
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Extra
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Without,
outside of |
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Pendulous
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Mastoptosis
Breast that hang down, or droop are described as... |
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gynecomastia
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Abnormally large mammary glands in a male
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mastadenoma
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Tumor of the mammary gland
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mastodynia
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Painful breast
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metrorrhagia
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Uterine hemorrhage
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Menopause
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Permanent cessation of menses
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amenorrhea
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Lack of menstruation (temporary)
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Hysterorrhexis
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Rupture of uterus (during labor)
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Climacteric
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Change of life transition.
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menorrhalgia
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Painful menstruation
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metratrophy
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Wasting (diminishing in size) of the uterus
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Ovum
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Female egg cell
o/o |
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Conception/fertilization
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Infiltration of female egg cell by male germ cell
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Spermatozoon
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Male germ cell
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Gestation (is the process)
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Pregnancy (is the condition)
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Nine months (280 days) |
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Embryo
time period (first stage) |
First two weeks of gestation
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Produces a living organism called embryo |
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Ovum
time period |
From conception the earliest phase of development = two weeks
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Embryo
time period (second stage) |
In the third week and continues through the eighth week
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Fetus (last phase/ gestational period)
time period |
The embryo at the Beginning of the ninth week it is now called...
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Resembles a human being and is called a fetus |
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Parturition
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Childbirth
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Parturition has three phases
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1st = dilation
2nd = expulsion 3rd = afterbirth expulsion |
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Neonatus
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New birth
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Parturition
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Another term for labor
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Multipara
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Multiple child births
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Childbed fever
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Puerperal sepsis
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Prior to effective antibiotic therapy greatest single cause of death following childbirth was called childbed fever (pertaining to the time when involution takes place) |
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First stage of labor
second stage of labor third stage of labor |
Dilation
expulsion afterbirth |
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Parturition
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Labor and delivery of term pregnancy
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Conception
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Fertilization of an ovum
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Plagia
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Paralysis
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blepharo
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Eyelid
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ptysis
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Spitting (as in spitting blood)
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pneumoencaphalography
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X-ray examination of spaces within the brain.
Prior to x-ray via lumbar puncture, cerebrospinal fluid is replaced with injected air or gas |
