Pregnancy
A sudden increase in blood pressure.
What is toxemia of pregnancy?
The process when the foundational structures of all the body’s organ systems are formed.
What is the germinal stage?
Maternal risk factors an infant will be born with some kind of problem.
What is diet, age, mental and physical health?
Oxygen deprivation caused by pressure on the umbilical cord.
What is anoxia?
Substances that cause damage to an embryo or fetus.
What are teratogens?
The pairs of chromosomes in typical human cells.
What is 23?
The stages of prenatal development in order of progression.
What are germinal, embryonic, and fetal stage?
The pattern that causes development to proceed from the head down.
What is the cephalocaudal principle?
A condition signaled by sudden change in fetal heart rate.
What is fetal distress?
A time when certain body systems are especially sensitive to teratogens.
What are critical periods?
A kind of diabetes that happens only during pregnancy
What is gestational diabetes?
The organ that allows transfer of oxygen, nutrients, and other substances between mother and baby's blood.
What is the placenta?
The pattern that causes development to occur in an orderly way from center to outward extremities.
What is the proximodistal principle?
A surgical procedure that is sometimes necessary to deliver a baby.
What is a cesarean section or c-section?
The most frequently used drug by pregnant women.
What is marijuana?
An entirely new cell.
What is a Zygote?
A hollow sphere with two layers.
What is blastocyst?
Medical test used to identify prenatal problems.
What are Chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis?
The term used to refer to a baby during the first month of life.
What is a neonate?
Many of these drugs are safe for pregnant women unless taken to excess.
What are prescription and over-the-counter drugs?
A hormone that causes male gonads to form.
What are androgens?
A fluid-filled sack in which the baby will float until just before birth.
What is amnion?
A sexually transmitted disease that cause a variety of birth defects.
What is cytomegalovirus (CMV)?
An assessment used to assess a baby's heartbeat, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes, and color immediately after birth.
What is the Apgar scale?
A disorder that has significant risk to occur in infants of mothers who are heavy drinkers or alcoholics.
What is fetal alcohol spectrum disorder?