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| neck, cervix uteri (neck of the uterus) |
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| tube (usually fallopian or eustachian) |
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| vessel, vas deferens, duct |
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| involuntary contraction, twitching |
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| a woman who has produced a viable infant (> 20-week's gestation), regardless of whether the infant is alive at birth |
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| a pregnant woman. The term is used with numerals to indicate the number of times a woman has been pregnant |
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| the process of synthesis and secretion of milk from the breasts in nourishment of an infant or child |
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| premature detachment of a normally situated placenta after the 20th week of gestation |
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| benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) |
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| a nonmalignant enlargement of the prostate due to excessive growth of prostatic tissue |
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| the gravest form of pregnancy-induced hypertension |
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| implantation of the fertilized ovum outside of the uterine cavity |
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| an accumulation of fluid in any saclike cavity or duct, particularly the scrotal sac or along the spermatic cord |
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| pelvic inflammatory disease |
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| infection of the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and adjacent pelvic structures |
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| a placenta that is abnormally implanted in the uterus so that it impinges on or covers the internal os (opening) of the uterine cervix |
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| a hereditary condition in which the kidneys are elnarged and contain many cysts |
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| a complication of pregnancy characterized by hypertension, proteinuria, and edema |
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| a rare and sometimes fatal disease caused by toxin-producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus |
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| blood urea nitrogen (BUN) |
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| a test that measures the amount of urea (nitrogenous waste product) normally excreted by the kidneys into the blood |
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| intravenous pyelogram (IVP) |
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| procedure in which a contrast medium is injected intravenously and serial x-ray films taken to view entire urinary tract: kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra |
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| prostate-specific antigen (PSA) |
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| blood test to screen for prostate cancer |
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| a physical, chemical and microscopic analysis of the urine |
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| use of a catheter (tube) to inject or remove fluids into a body cavity or organ |
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| a procedure using subfreezing temperature (liquid nitrogen or CO2) to destroy tissue |
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| dilation of the uterine cervix canal of the uterus and scraping (curettage) of the endometrium of the uterus |
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| a method of providing the function of the kidneys by circulating tubes made of semipermeable membranes |
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| dialysis in which the lining of the peritoneal cavity is used as the dialyzing membrane |
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| drugs that relieve spasms and act to relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the urethra, bladder, and intestine, allowing normal urination |
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| substances that increase the rate of secretion |
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| hormone that triggers contractions of the pregnant uterus during labor and then later stimulates the release of breast milk |
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| benign prostatic hyperplasia, benign prostatic hypertrophy |
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| estrogen replacement therapy |
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| intravenous pyelogram (same as EU, excretory urogram) |
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| kidneys, ureters, bladder; a radiograph without use of contrast medium that illustrates size shape and location of kidneys in relationship to other organs in abdominopelvic region) |
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| pelvic inflammatory disease |
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| sexually transmitted disease, somatropin hormone |
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| total abdomimnal hysterectomy |
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| transurethral resection of prostate (for prostatectomy) |
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