Obstetric nursing terms
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| Teratogen | show 🗑
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| show | A technique of palpation to detect or examine a floating object in the body. In obstetrics, the fetus, when pushed, floats away and then returns to touch the examiner's fingers.
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| show | In some cultures, the male's observance of certain rituals and taboos to signify the transition to fatherhood.
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| Goodell's sign | show 🗑
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| Hegar's sign | show 🗑
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| show | The line of darker pigmentation extending from the umbilicus to the pubis noted in some women during the later months of pregnancy.
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| McDonald's sign | show 🗑
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| Morning sickness | show 🗑
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| show | Separation of the recti abdominis muscles along the median line. In women, it is seen with repeated childbirths or multiple gestations. In the newborn, it is usually caused by incomplete development.
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| Mucous plug | show 🗑
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| Physiologic anemia of pregnancy | show 🗑
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| Quickening | show 🗑
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| show | Stretch marks; shiny purplish lines that appear on the abdomen, breasts, thighs, and buttocks of pregnant women as a result of stretching the skin.
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| Supine hypotensive syndrome(vena caval syndrome, aortocaval compression) | show 🗑
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| show | Loss of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus; miscarriage.
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| show | Time between conception and the onset of labor; usually used to describe the period during which a woman is pregnant.
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| show | During a pregnancy, the approximate date when childbirth will occur; the "due date."
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| Gestation | show 🗑
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| show | A pregnant woman.
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| show | The time from the onset of true labor until the birth of the infant and expulsion of the placenta.
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| show | Woman who has been pregnant more than once.
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| Multipara | show 🗑
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| Nagele's rule | show 🗑
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| show | A woman who has never been pregnant.
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| show | A woman who has not given birth to a viable fetus.
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| show | After childbirth.
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| show | Labor that occurs after 42 weeks' gestation.
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| show | Preterm labor Labor occurring between 20 and 38 weeks of pregnancy. Also called premature labor.
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| Primipara | show 🗑
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| show | The birth of a dead infant.
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| show | The normal duration of pregnancy.
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| show | See Fetal activity diary (FAD).
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| show | Perineal muscle tightening that strengthens the pubococcygeus muscle and increases its tone.
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| show | Mucous discharge from the vagina or cervical canal that may be normal or pathologic, as in the presence of infection.
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| show | Moving of the fetus and uterus downward into the pelvic cavity.
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| show | Also called pelvic rocking; exercise designed to reduce back strain and strengthen abdominal muscle tone.
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| Ptyalism | show 🗑
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| show | An important vitamin directly related to the outcome of pregnancy and to maternal and fetal health.
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| show | The eating of substances not ordinarily considered edible or to have nutritive value.
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| Emancipated minors | show 🗑
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| Amniocentesis | show 🗑
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| Biophysical profile (BPP) | show 🗑
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| show | A method of assessing the reaction of the fetus to the stress of uterine contractions. This test may be utilized when contractions are spontaneous or when contractions are induced by oxytocin challenge test (OCT)/ breast self-stimulation test (BSST).
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| show | An assessment method by which the reaction (or response) of the fetal heart rate to fetal movement is evaluated.
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| show | The most widely used test to screen for Down syndrome (trisomy 21), trisomy 18, and neural tube defects (NTDs).
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