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A&P LINK 7.1
Question | Answer |
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BLASTOCYST | STAGE OF FETAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE ZYGOTE STAGE WHERE THE RAPIDLY DIVIDING CELL FORMS A MASS THAT IMPLANTS IN THE UTERINE LINING AND WILL BECOME THE EMBRYO AND PLACENTA |
EMBRYO | STAGE OF FETAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER IMPLANTATION UNTIL THE 8TH WEEK OF GESTATION |
FERTILIZATION | ACT AS A SPERM PENTRATING AN EGG AND BEGINNING THE DIVSION OF THE CELLS TO CREATE AN EMBRYO |
FETUS | STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT AN EMBRYO BECOMES A FETUS AFTER 8 DAYS OF GESTATION |
GAMETE | GENERAL TERM FOR THE MALE AND FEMALE SEX CELLS |
GONAD | PRODUCE SEX CELLS AND SECRETE HORMONES |
HUMAN CHORIONIC GONDADOTROPIN | HORMONE RELEASED BY AN EMBRYO THEN BY THE PLACENTA IT CAUSES THE CORPUS LUTEUM TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PROGESTERONE TO MAINTAIN THE UTERINE LINING |
MEIOSIS | SEXUAL REPRODUCTION |
MENARCHE | FIRST MENSTRUAL CYCLE |
MENOPAUSE | AGE AT WHICH THE OVARIES CEASE PRODUCING HORMONES AND THE PERIOD STOPS |
MENSTRUAL CYCLE | 28 DAY CYCLE PERIOD |
MITOSIS | A SEXUAL REPRODUCTION |
OOGENSIS | CREATION OF EGG CELLS OR OVA IN THE PRIMARY SEX ORGANS OF THE FEMALE BY MEIOSIS |
OVULATION | ACT OF A MATURE EGG BEING RELEASED BY THE GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE IN THE OVARY OWING TO CHANGES IN LEVELS OF PROGESTERONE AND ESTROGEN |
OVUM | EGG CELL |
PREPUCE | FORESKIN ON A PENIS |
SEMEN | FLUID CONTAINING SPERM |
SPERM | MALE GAMETES PRODUCED BY THE TESTES |
SPERMATOGENESIS | CREATION OF SPERM BY THE TESTES WHICH ARE THE PRIMARY SEX ORGANS OF MALES |
ZYGOTE | CELL IN FETAL DEVELOPMENT THAT IS FORMED BY THE COMBINATION OF THE MALE AND FEMALE CHROMOSOMES DURING FERTILIZATION |
AMENORRHEA | ABSENCE OF MENSTRUATION |
ANORCHIDISM | FAILURE OF ONE OR BOTH TESTES TO DEVELOP |
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY | ENLARGEMENT OF PROSTATE GLAND |
BREAST CANCER | MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE BREAST |
ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE | RESULT OF PLACENTA PULLING AWAY FROM UTERINE WALL LEAVING IN THE FETUS WITHOUT A SUPPLY OF OXYGEN OR NUTRIENTS CAUSING SEVERE BLEEDING IN THE MOTHER |
BREECH BIRTH | DELIVERY OF THE FETUS IN A POSITION OTHER THAN HEAD FIRST |
CERIVAL CANCER | MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE CERVIX |
CRPTORCHIDISM | FAILURE OF THE TESTES TO DESEND INTO THE SCROTUM |
ECLAMPSIA | SEIZURES DURING THE PREGNANCY USUALLY CAUSED BY PREECLAMPSIA |
ECTOPIC PREGNANCY | IMPLANTATION OF A FERTILIZED EGG IN A PLACE OTHER THAN UTERUS MOST COMMONLY IN FALLOPIAN TUBE |
ENDOMETRIOSIS | GROWTH OF UTERINE TISSUE OUTSIDE THE UTERUS |
OVARIAN CYST | FLUID FILLED SACS ON OVARY THAT MAY CAUSE PAIN ABNORMAL BLEEDING CRAMPING |
PREECLAMPSIA | HYPERTENSION VISION CHANGES HEADACHE DURING PREGNANCY |
TESTICULAR CANCER | MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE TESTIS |