Pregnancy Terms Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- operculum : mucous plug
- preterm : a pregnancy that has reached 20 weeks but ends before 37 weeks
- viability : capacity to live outside the uterus
- goodell sign : softening of the cervical tip beginning about the 6th week
- braxton hicks : irregular painless contractions
- parity : number of pregnancies in which the fetus has reached 20 weeks gestation
- hegar sign : softening and compressibility of the lower uterine segment
- quickening : first recognition of fetal movements
- gravida : a woman who is pregnant
- positive : signs attributed only to the presence of a fetus
- probable : changes observed by an examiner
- lightening : beginning of fetal descent into the pelvis
- ballottement : bouncing a floating structure and feeling it rebound
- presumptive : changes felt by the woman
- chadwick sign : violet-blue vaginal mucosa and cervix
- primipara : a woman who has completed one pregnancy with a fetus beyond 20 weeks gestation
