General OB Terminology
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- Abortion/Miscarriage
- loss of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus.
- Attitude –
- In perinatal care, the relationship of the fetal parts to each other.
- Designations
- O, M, B, S, SC
- Effacement
- Thinning & shortening of the cervix that occurs late in pregnancy or during labor.
- Embryo –
- The early stage of development of the young of any organism. In humans the embryonic period is 2
- Engagement –
- the entrance of the fetal presenting part into the superior pelvic strait & the beginning of the descent through the pelvic canal.
- Fetus
- The child in utero from about the 7th - 9th week of gestation until birth.
- Funic Souffle
- The soft blowing sound heard over the location of the umbilical cord of the fetus in utero and synchronous with the fetal heartbeat during late pregnancy.
- Gravida –
- a pregnant woman
- Intrapartum
- The time from the onset of true labor until the birth of the infant and expulsion of the placenta.
- Hydatiform mole
- Degenerative process in chorionic villi; giving rise to multiple cysts & rapid growth of the uterus, with hemorrhage.
- Lie –
- the relationship of the long axis of the fetus & the long axis of the pregnant woman. May be longitudinal, transverse, oroblique.
- Multigravid
- – A woman who has been pregnant more than once.
- Neonate –
- An infant from birth through the first 28 days of life.
- Nulligravida
- A woman who has never been pregnant.
- Para –
- A woman who has borne offspring who reached the age of viability.
- Position
- Relationship of presenting part of fetus to the 4 quadrants of mother.
- Positive Signs of Pregnancy
- Indications that confirm the presence of pregnancy.
- Postpartum
- After childbirth
- Presentation
- The fetal part of the body that enters the pelvis first. 3 presentations are cephalic, shoulder & breech.
- Presumptive Signs of Pregnancy
- Symptoms that suggest but do not confirm pregnancy. Cessation of menses, quickening, Chadwick’s sign, morning sickness
- Primigravida
- A woman who is pregnant for the 1st time.
- Probable Signs & Symptoms of Pregnancy
- Manifestations that strongly suggest the likeihood of pregnansy such as + pregnancy test, enlarging abdomen, + Goodell's, Hegar's, & Braxton Hicks signs.
- Station –
- Relationship of presenting fetal part to an imaginary line drawn between the pelvic ischial spines.
- Trimester –
- 3 months or 1/3 of the gestational time for pregnancy.
- Uterine Souffle –
- Soft, blowing sound heard when ausculating maternal abdomen.