Labor and Delivery 81 test review Questions With Complete Solutions

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