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medical terminology
answer | hint |
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gynec/o | woman |
culd/o | cul-de-sac |
hyster/o | uterus |
-salpinx | fallopian tube |
arche/o | first, beginning |
mamm/o | breast |
mast/o | breast |
men/o | menstruation |
perine/o | perineum |
-ial | pertaing to |
colp/o | vagina |
episi/o | vulva |
hymen/o | hymen |
cervic/o | cervix |
trachel/o | cervix |
-atresia | absence of normal body opening |
salping/o | fallopian tube |
oophor/o | ovary |
peri- | surrounding; outer |
dyspareunia | painful coitus |
colpalgia | pain in the vagina |
fistula | abnormal passage between 2 organs |
menarche | 1st menstruation |
vulva | external female genital organs |
fallopian tube | tube extending from the uterus to an ovary |
myometrium | muscular substance of the uterus |
endometrium | the mucus membrane lining of the uterus |
fundus | the bottom of an organ |
uterus | hollow pear shaped female internal organ in which the fertilized ovum is implanted & the fetus develops |
embryo | the developing organism from the 4h day after fertilization to the end of the 7th or 8th week |
zygote | fertilized ovum |
gamete | reproductive cell |
ovary | one of the two female gonads |