gestational age - Answer✔️✔️-Age as measured in weeks from the first day of the
mother's last menstrual cycle.
gravida - Answer✔️✔️-pregnant
GFR - Answer✔️✔️-glomerular filtration rate
Goodell's sign - Answer✔️✔️-softening of the cervix
gate control theory - Answer✔️✔️-the theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological
"gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain. The "gate" is
opened by the activity of pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers and is closed by
activity in larger fibers or by information coming from the brain.
HCG - Answer✔️✔️-human chorionic gonadotropin
* Earliest biochemical marker of pregnancy (Phenergan and diuretics can effect
pregnancy tests)
Hegar's sign - Answer✔️✔️-softening of the lower uterine segment
hyperemesis gravidarum - Answer✔️✔️-severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that
can cause severe dehydration in the mother and fetus
immunization - Answer✔️✔️-The deliberate exposure of a pathogen to produce memory
cells.
lecithin L/S ratio - Answer✔️✔️-is a test of fetal amniotic fluid to assess for fetal lung
immaturity.
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