define disproportion in pregnancy
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Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD) Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD) is a condition where the baby’s head or body does not fit hrough the mother’s pelvis.
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Miscarriage A miscarriage is the loss of pregnancy from natural causes before the 20th week of pregnancy. Most miscarriages occur very early in the pregnancy, often before a woman even knows she is pregnant. There are many different causes for a miscarriage. In most cases, there is nothing you can do to prevent a miscarriage.
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Miscarriage treatment progesterone Pregnancy Loss (Definition) A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. (Pregnancy losses after the 20th week are called preterm deliveries.) A miscarriage may also be called a spontaneous abortion.. This refers to naturally occurring events, not medical abortions or surgical abortions. ...Read more.
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Unintended Pregnancy Overview: Unintended Pregnancy. An unintended pregnancy is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a mistimed, unplanned, or unwanted pregnancy at the time of conception. In the United States, 49% of pregnancies were unintended. In 2006, among women aged 19 years and younger, more than 4 out of 5 pregnancies were unintended.
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Abortion Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo from the womb before it can survive on its own. An abortion which occurs spontaneously is also known as a miscarriage.An abortion may be caused purposely and is then called an induced abortion, or less frequently, induced miscarriage.The word abortion is often used to mean only induced abortions. A similar procedure after the fetus could potentially survive outside the womb is known as a  late termination of pregnancy .pontaneous abortion, also known as miscarriage, is the unintentional expulsion of an embryo or fetus before the 24th week of gestation. A pregnancy that ends before 37 weeks of gestation resulting in a live-born infant is known as a  premature birth  or a preterm birth.
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- Miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of pregnancy during the first 20 weeks of gestation. It is also called spontaneous abortion, or early pregnancy loss. Miscarriage is very common.
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MATERNITY gestation - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus. maternity, pregnancy. fetal movement, foetal movement - motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)
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Pregnancy Pregnancy, also known as gravidity or gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman. A multiple pregnancy involves more than one offspring, such as with twins.Pregnancy can occur by sexual intercourse or assisted reproductive technology. It usually lasts around 40 weeks from the last menstrual period (LMP) and ends in childbirth. This is just over 9 lunar months, where each month is about 29½ days.hen measured from conception it is about 38 weeks. An embryo is the developing offspring during the first 8 weeks following conception, after which, the term fetus is used until birth. Symptom of early pregnancy may include a missed periods, tender breasts, nausea and vomiting, hunger, and frequent urination.
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Effects of Malnutrition During Pregnancy Effects of Malnutrition During Pregnancy. The notable effects of malnutrition during pregnancy are problematic labor, premature birth, and delivering babies with low-birth weight. A baby born to a malnourished mother is prone to infections, retarded growth, and cognitive impairment.This article provides some information on the same. Advertisement.alnutrition is defined as the lack of sufficient nutrients, which are essential for the body's normal functioning. Over time, it affects the bodily organs and results in mild to severe medical problems. One of the malnutrition facts is that the number of hungry people is more in the developing countries.
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Abnormal Pregnancy A miscarriage is a loss of pregnancy during the first 20 weeks. Though miscarriage occurs in about half of all pregnancies, only 10% of pregnancies are known and most occur during the first 13 weeks.
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University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), established in the early 20th century, is OU's presence in Oklahoma City. OUHSC is one of only four academic health centers in the nation with seven professional colleges.
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premature birth premature birth. expulsion of the fetus from the uterus before termination of the normal gestation period, but after independent existence has become a possibility. In humans prematurity is defined as a pregnancy of less than 37 weeks in a pregnancy normally lasting 40 weeks.
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Aneuploidy and non-disjunction Aneuploidy: gain or loss of a chromosome(s) such that the number of chromosomes is not a multiple of 23 (the human haploid number) Can be due to two main mechanisms: 1) Non-disjunction. Definition: failure of chromosomal separation in anaphase of either meiosis or mitosis.
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Infertility Impaired fecundity is a condition related to infertility and refers to women who have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term. Yes. About 6% of married women aged 15 to 44 years in the United States are unable to get pregnant after one year of trying (infertility).
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"What do the medical terms ""gravida"" and ""para"" mean?" Gravida and para are medical terms that relate to pregnancy and birth. Gravida describes the total number of confirmed pregnancies that a woman has had, regardless of the outcome. Parity is defined as the number of births that a woman has had after 20 weeks gestation. If a woman gives birth to more than one baby from a pregnancy, the pregnancy and birth are only counted once.
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Miscarriage A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy from conception to 20 weeks' gestation. The term stillbirth refers to the death of a fetus after 20 weeks' gestation. Miscarriage is sometimes referred to as spontaneous abortion, because the medical term abortion means the ending of a pregnancy, whether intentional or unintentional. Most miscarriages occur in the first trimester of pregnancy, between the 7th and 12th weeks of pregnancy.
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pregnancy Obstetrics The state of gestation; the period of time from confirmation of implantation of a fertilized egg within the uterus–presumptive signs of pregnancy include missed menses or a positive pregnancy test [45 CFR 46.203(b)]–until the fetus has entirely left the uterus–ie, been delivered.
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anemia of pregnancy anemia of pregnancy. a condition of pregnancy characterized by a reduction in the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood. It may be physiological or pathological. In physiological anemia of pregnancy, the reduction in concentration results from dilution because the plasma volume expands more than the erythrocyte volume. The hematocrit in pregnancy normally drops several points below its pregnancy level.
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OBSTETRICS presentation ((obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal) para; parity ((obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of obstetrics): fetology; foetology (the branch of medicine concerned with the fetus in the uterus) perinatology (the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium)
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- cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD), a condition in which the fetal head is too large to traverse the maternal pelvis. cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD) Etymology: Gk, kephale + L, pelvis, basin, dis, opposite of, proportio, similarity.
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Miscarriage: Signs, causes, and treatment What is a miscarriage? Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks. (In medical articles, you may see the term spontaneous abortion used in place of miscarriage.) About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and more than 80 percent of these losses happen before 12 weeks.
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- Infertility is the inability to become pregnant after twelve months of regular, unprotected intercourse or the inability to carry a pregnancy to live birth. For women age 35 and older, testing for causes of infertility is recommended after six months of trying to become pregnant without success. Infertility affects both men and women, leading to difficulty conceiving for about one in eight couples.
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False Pregnancy (Pseudocyesis) False pregnancy, clinically termed pseudocyesis, is the belief that you are expecting a baby when you are not really carrying a child. People with pseudocyesis have many, if not all, symptoms of pregnancy -- with the exception of an actual fetus.
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- apportionment-the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state.
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- post·par·tum al·o·pe·ci·a. 1  temporary diffuse telogen loss of scalp hair at the termination of pregnancy. 2  Synonym(s): telogen effluvium.
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- mass noun. 1The process or period of developing inside the womb between conception and birth. ‘Not only are females responsible for bearing all costs of gestation but they must also protect the fetus from harm.’. ‘Clinical history should include complications of pregnancy, duration of gestation, and birth weight.’.