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| a person's subjective sense of being male or famale |
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| the collection of psychological and behavioral traits that differ between males and females. |
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| having a gender identity that is descordant with one's anatomical sex. |
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| the expression of gender identity in social behavior. |
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| a child's understanding that sex is a fixed attribute. |
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| a collection of ideas about gender that influences perception and judgement |
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| cultural guidelines that prescribe sexual roles. |
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| a transgendered person who seeks to transition to the other sex. |
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| the unhappiness caused by discordance between a person's anatomical sex and gender identity. |
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| a female to male transexual |
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| a male to female transexual |
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| wearing clothes of the other sex for purposes of sexual arousal. Sometimes applied to cross dressing for any reason. |
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| a form of male to female transsexuality characterized by a man's sexual arousal at the thought of becoming a movie. |
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| a man who took a female gender role in Polynesian society and performed ritual dances. |
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| in native american cultured, a person with the spirit of both a man and a woman; a transgendered person. Also called a berdache. |
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| a female Scythian warrior; more generally, an tall of powerful woman. |
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| a member of a class of male to female transexuals in northern india and pakistan |
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| the process by which transexuals change sex. |
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| a period of living in the role of the other sex as a prelude to sex-reassignment. |
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| surgery to change a person's genitals or other sexual characteristics. |
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| the attachment of the embryo of the endometrium. |
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| human chorionic gonadortopin (hCG) |
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| a hormone secreted by the conceptus and by the placenta; its presence in a woman's blood is an indicator of pregnancy. |
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| an imaging procedure that depends on the reflection of ultrasonic waves from density boundaries within the body. Also called ultrasonographic scan. |
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| difficulty in establishing a pregnancy; arbitrarily defined as the absence of pregnancy after a couple has had frequent unprotected sex for 12 months. |
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| inability (a a man, woman, or couple) to achieve pregnancy |
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| an assisted reproduction technique that involves the placement of semen in the vagina or uterus with the aid of a syringe or cannula. |
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| in vitro fertilization (IVF) |
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| any of a variety of assisted reproduction techniques in which fertilization takes place outside the body. |
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| assisted reproductive technology (ART) |
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| in vitro fertilization and related technologies. |
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| the growth of endometrial tissue at abnormal locations. |
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| absence of menstruation in a woman who has previously menstruated normally. |
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| infrequent or unusually light menstruation. |
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| a person who stands in for another; for example, as a sex partner or as the bearer of a child. |
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| a collection of birth defects caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21. |
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| an antigen on the surface of red blood cells that, when preset in a fetus but not in its mother, may trigger and immune response by the mother resulting in severe anemia. |
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| implantation and resulting pregnancy at an site other than the uterus. |
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| a fetus's age, timed from the onset of the mother's last menstrual period. |
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| a "rule of thumb" that a pregnant woman's due date is 9 months plus one week after the onset of her last menstrual period. |
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| pregnancy like symptoms in the male partner of a pregnant woman. |
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| a collection of physical and behavioral symptoms in a child who was exposed to high levels of alcohol as a fetus. |
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| the onset of movements by the fetus that can be felt by the mother. |
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| the sampling of the amniotic fluid for purposes of prenatal diagnosis. |
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| chorionic villus sampling |
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| the sampling of tissue form the placenta for purposes of prenatal diagnosis. |
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| braxton-hicks contractions |
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| irregular uterine contractions that occur during the third trimester of pregnancy. Also called false labor. |
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| a facility specializing in childbirth care. |
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| a method of childbirth instruction that focuses on techniques of relaxation and other natural means of pain prevention. |
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| a method of childbirth instruction that stresses the partner's role as birth coach and that seeks to avoid medical interventions. |
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| delivery of young; childbirth. |
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| the sinking of a fetus's head into a lower position in the pelvis in preparation for birth Also called lightening. |
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| the canal formed by the uterus, cervix, and vagina, through which the fetus passes during childbirth. |
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| thinning of the cervix in preparation for childbirth. |
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| in childbirth, the expansion of the cervical canal. also called dilatation. |
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| the process by which transexuals change sex. |
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| anesthesia administered just outside the memvrane that surrounds the spinal cord. |
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| a cut extending the opening of the vagina backward into the perineum preformed by an obstetrician with the intention of facilitation childbirth or reducing the risk of perineal tears. |
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| the placenta, whose delivery constitutes the final stage of labor. |
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| cesarean section(C-section) |
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| the delivery of a baby through an incision in the abdominal wall and the uterus. |
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| premature labor/preterm birth |
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| labor or birth that occurs before 37 weeks of gestation age. |
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| depression in a mother during the period after birth. |
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| the production of milk in the mammary glands. |
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| a hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that promotes breast development, among other effects. |
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| the reflex ejection of milk into the milk ducts in response to suckling. Also called milk ejection reflex. |
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| the milk produced during the first few days after birth;it is relatively low in fat but rich in protein. |
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| obsolete term for a sexually transmitted disease. |
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| a sexually transmitted disease caused by a spirochete, trponema pallidum. |
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| hair that appears on portions of the external genitalia in both sexes at puberty. |
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| infestation with a mite that burrows within the skin. |
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| infection with the protozoan. also called "trich" |
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| someone who is infected with a disease organism but is not experiencing symptoms. |
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| a sexually transmitted disease caused by infection with the bacterium neisseria gonorrhoeae. |
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| pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) |
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| an infection of the female reproductive tract, often caused by sexually transmitted organisms. |
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| inflammation of the epididymis. |
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| a sexually transmitted disease caused by infection with the bacterium, chlamydia trachomatis. |
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| inflammation of the urethra, usually caused by an infection. |
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| a skin condition marked by small raised growths; it is caused by a pox virus. |
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| herpes infection of the mouth, usually caused by HSV-1. |
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| an infection of the genital area cause by HSV-2 or (less commonly) HSV-1. |
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| human papilloma viruses (HPV) |
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| any of a group of viruses that can be sexually tranmitted and that cause genital warts or other lesions; some types predispose infeted persons to cancer of the cervix or anus. |
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| wartlike growths on or near the genitalia or anus, caused by infection with human papilloma virus. |
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| liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus, a virus that is often transmitted sexually. |
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| yellowing of the skin and mucous membranes, caused by liver disease. |
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| liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus. it is sometimes transmitted sexually. |
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| the retrovirus that causes AIDS |
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| coitus( and sometimes other penetrative sex acts) accomplished by force or the threat of force. |
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| coercive or nonconsensual sexual contact : a broader category of behaviors than rape. |
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| penetrative sex when a partner is legally unable to give consent on account of young age, intellectual disability, or unconsciousness. |
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| rape between dating or socially acquainted couples. |
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| a tranquilizer that has been used to facilitate rape. |
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| an anesthetic and recreational drug that has been used to facilitate rape. |
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| a cluster of persistent physical a psychological symptoms seen in rape victims, comparable to post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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| laws that protect rape victims , for example, by limiting to introduction of evidence about their prior sexual behavior. |
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| unwanted sexual advances or other intimidating sexual behavior, usually in the workplace. |
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| unwelcome sexual advances, usually made to a worker in a subordinate position, accompanied by promises or threats. |
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| hostile-environment harassment |
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| sexual harassment involving a pattern of conduct that creates an intimidation work environment. |
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| obsessive pursuit of someone in such a way as to put that person in a state of fear. |
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| intimate partner stalking |
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| stalking of a current or former spouse or other intimate partner. |
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| obsessive relational intrusion |
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| obsessive pursuit of a person by a rejected lover. |
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| stalking motivated by the delusional belief that the victim is in love with or could be persuaded to t=fall in love with , the stalker. |
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| the delusional belief that a sexulally desired but unattainable person is actually in love with oneself. |
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| nonsexual revenge stalking |
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| intimate partner violence |
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| violence between sex partners |
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| a version of post traumatic stress disorder affecting women who are victims of intimate partner violence, characterized especially by a cessation of attempts to escape from the abusive situation. |
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