Labor and Delivery Questions and 100% Correct Answers 2023/2024
lightening - descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy Braxton Hicks Contractions - intermittent painless uterine contractions that occur with increasing frequency as the pregnancy progresses effacement - Thinning and shortening or obliteration of the cervix that occurs during late pregnancy or labor or both. process of labor - passageway, passengers, powers, position of mother, psyche linea terminalis - pelvic inlet attitude - relationship of fetal body parts to one another flexion - at term, the ideal attitude for the fetal body is this fetal position - the relationship of the occiput, sacrum, chin, or scapula of the fetus to the front, back, or sides of the mother's pelvis oligohydramnios - too little amniotic fluid often indicative of fetal urinary tract defect fetal lie - relationship of the cephalocaudal (head-to-buttocks) axis of the fetus to the cephalocaudal axis of the mother fetal presentation - that part of the fetus that first enters the pelvis and lies over the inlet (head, face, breech, or shoulders) describes the part that will bein contact with the cervix
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