CNUR 303 - Lecture 1 2025/2026 Exam
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Gravidity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pregnancy
Gravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔woman who is pregnant
multigravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔women who has had two or more pregnancies
Multipara - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-woman who has completed two or more pregnancies
to 20 weeks' gestation or more
Nulligravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-women who has never been pregnant
Nullipara - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-women who has not completed a pregnancy with
fetus or fetuses beyond 20 weeks of gestation
Parity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-number of pregnancies in which fetus or fetuses have
reached 20 weeks of gestation, not number of fetuses (e.g., twins) born. Parity is
,not affected by whether the fetus is born alive or is stillborn (i.e., showing no signs
of life at birth).
Postdate or postterm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-pregnancy that goes beyond 41 weeks of
gestation
Preterm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-pregnancy that has reached 20 weeks of gestation but
before completion of 36 weeks of gestation
Primigravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-woman who is pregnant for the first time
Primipara - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔woman who has completed one pregnancy with fetus
or fetuses who have reached 20 weeks of gestation
Term - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-pregnancy from beginning of week 37 of gestation to end
of week 40 plus 6 days of gestation
Viability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔capacity to live outside the uterus; about 22 to 25
weeks of gestation
Presumptive signs of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Amenorrhea: absence of
menstruation
-"Morning Sickness"
-Excessive Fatigue
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,-Urinary Frequency
-Changes in breasts
Probable signs of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Goodell's Sign: softening of cervix
-Chadwick's Sign: purplish color
-Hegar's Sign: softening of the isthmus, lower segment of the uterus
-Positive Pregnancy Test
-Progressive Uterine Enlargement
-Palpation of Fundus: palpating the dome-shaped upper part of the uterus, called
the fundus
Positive signs of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Fetal heart
-Fetal Movement
-Ultrasound
Uterus adaptations to pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Changes in size, shape, and
position
-Changes in contractility: braxton hicks (contractions of the uterus)
-Uteroplacental blood flow: changes related to fetal presence
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, -at 14 weeks you may begin to show your pregnancy
Changes in size shape and position of uterus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Increases 20 times
non pregnant state--hypertrophy and hyperplasia of myometrial cells
-10 weeks = size of orange
-12 weeks = size of grapefruit
-Weight increases 50 gm (2 oz) to 1100gm (2.5 lbs)
-Capacity increases from 10mL to 5000 mL or more
-Shape changes from an inverted pear to a globe, as muscle walls strengthen &
become more elastic
Height of fundus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-estimates duration of pregnancy
-36 weeks at about xiphoid process
-height of the fundus is affected by amount of amniotic fluid, how large the fetus
is, maternal obesity etc so it isn't a definitive answer of gestation time
Ovary adaptations to pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Amenorrhea
-Corpus Luteum - produces progesterone & estrogen in early pregnancy (until
approximately 14 weeks, when placenta takes over)
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Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
Gravidity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pregnancy
Gravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔woman who is pregnant
multigravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔women who has had two or more pregnancies
Multipara - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-woman who has completed two or more pregnancies
to 20 weeks' gestation or more
Nulligravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-women who has never been pregnant
Nullipara - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-women who has not completed a pregnancy with
fetus or fetuses beyond 20 weeks of gestation
Parity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-number of pregnancies in which fetus or fetuses have
reached 20 weeks of gestation, not number of fetuses (e.g., twins) born. Parity is
,not affected by whether the fetus is born alive or is stillborn (i.e., showing no signs
of life at birth).
Postdate or postterm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-pregnancy that goes beyond 41 weeks of
gestation
Preterm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-pregnancy that has reached 20 weeks of gestation but
before completion of 36 weeks of gestation
Primigravida - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-woman who is pregnant for the first time
Primipara - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔woman who has completed one pregnancy with fetus
or fetuses who have reached 20 weeks of gestation
Term - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-pregnancy from beginning of week 37 of gestation to end
of week 40 plus 6 days of gestation
Viability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔capacity to live outside the uterus; about 22 to 25
weeks of gestation
Presumptive signs of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Amenorrhea: absence of
menstruation
-"Morning Sickness"
-Excessive Fatigue
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,-Urinary Frequency
-Changes in breasts
Probable signs of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Goodell's Sign: softening of cervix
-Chadwick's Sign: purplish color
-Hegar's Sign: softening of the isthmus, lower segment of the uterus
-Positive Pregnancy Test
-Progressive Uterine Enlargement
-Palpation of Fundus: palpating the dome-shaped upper part of the uterus, called
the fundus
Positive signs of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Fetal heart
-Fetal Movement
-Ultrasound
Uterus adaptations to pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Changes in size, shape, and
position
-Changes in contractility: braxton hicks (contractions of the uterus)
-Uteroplacental blood flow: changes related to fetal presence
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, -at 14 weeks you may begin to show your pregnancy
Changes in size shape and position of uterus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Increases 20 times
non pregnant state--hypertrophy and hyperplasia of myometrial cells
-10 weeks = size of orange
-12 weeks = size of grapefruit
-Weight increases 50 gm (2 oz) to 1100gm (2.5 lbs)
-Capacity increases from 10mL to 5000 mL or more
-Shape changes from an inverted pear to a globe, as muscle walls strengthen &
become more elastic
Height of fundus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-estimates duration of pregnancy
-36 weeks at about xiphoid process
-height of the fundus is affected by amount of amniotic fluid, how large the fetus
is, maternal obesity etc so it isn't a definitive answer of gestation time
Ovary adaptations to pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Amenorrhea
-Corpus Luteum - produces progesterone & estrogen in early pregnancy (until
approximately 14 weeks, when placenta takes over)
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