The process of ovulation and menstruation in women.
What is the menstrual cycle?
100
The expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle)
What is ovulation?
100
The female reproductive cell in animals and plants.
What is an egg?
100
The action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote.
What is fertilization?
100
The expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive independently or as the result of accident.
What is a miscarriage?
200
A dilation and curettage procedure in which the cervix (lower, narrow part of the uterus) is dilated (expanded) so that the uterine lining (endometrium) can be scraped with a curette (spoon-shaped instrument) to remove abnormal tissues.
What is D and C?
200
The narrow necklike passage forming the lower end of the uterus.
What is the cervix?
200
The organ in the lower body of a woman or female mammal where offspring are conceived and in which they gestate before birth; the womb
What is the uterus?
200
An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development.
What is the embryo?
200
The follicular phase is the phase of the estrous cycle, during which follicles in the ovary mature.
What is the follicular phase?
300
The secretory phase which is the second half of the menstrual cycle after ovulation.
What is the luteal phase?
300
The major endocrine gland. A pea-sized body attached to the base of the brain, the pituitary is important in controlling growth and development and the functioning of the other endocrine glands.
What is the pituitary gland?
300
A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates ovulation in females and the synthesis of androgen in males.
What is the lutinizing hormone?
300
A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that promotes the formation of ova or sperm.
What is the follicle stimulating hormone?
300
A small secretory cavity, sac, or gland, in particular.
What is a follicle?
400
A female reproductive organ in which ova or eggs are produced, present in humans and other vertebrates as a pair.
What is an ovary?
400
A hormone-secreting structure that develops in an ovary after an ovum has been discharged but degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun.
What is corpus luteum?
400
A steroid hormone released by the corpus luteum that stimulates the uterus to prepare for pregnancy.
What is progesterone?
400
In a female mammal either of a pair of tubes along which eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus.
What are fallopian tubes?
400
A male gamete or reproductive cell
What is sperm?
500
The process of carrying or being carried in the womb between conception and birth
What is gestation?
500
Time period extending from the 28th week of gestation until delivery
What is 3 trimesters?
500
A breech birth is the birth of a baby from a breech presentation, in which the baby exits the pelvis with the buttocks or feet first as opposed to the normal head-first presentation.
What is the breech position?
500
The watery fluid in the amnion, in which the embryo is suspended.
What is amniotic fluid?
500
A surgical operation for delivering a child by cutting through the wall of the mother's abdomen.