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Here are a list of a-z of some pregnancy terms you may hear
while you are pregnant and some you will never hear of.
T
- Tay-Sachs disease: Inherited disease characterized by mental and physical
retardation, convulsions, enlargement of the head and eventually death. Trait
is usually carried by Ashkenazi Jews.
- Telangiectasias: Dilatation or swelling of a small blood vessel.
Sometimes called an angioma. During pregnancy, another common name
is a spider angioma.
- Teratogenic: Causes abnormal development.
- Thalassemia: Group of inherited disorders of hemoglobin metabolism,
which results in a decrease in the amount of hemoglobin formed.
- Threatened abortion: Bleeding during the first trimester of pregnancy
without cramping or contractions.
- Thrombosis: Formation of a blood clot (thrombus).
- Thrush: Monilial or yeast infection occurring in the mouth or mucous
membranes of a newborn infant.
- Thyroid disease: Abnormality of the thyroid gland and its production
of thyroid hormone.
- Tocolysis: Stopping contractions during premature labour.
- Toxoplasmosis: Infection caused by toxoplasma gondii.
- Transverse lie: Fetus is turned sideways in uterus.
- Trichomonal vaginitis: Venereal infection caused by trichomonas.
- Trimester: Method of dividing pregnancy into three equal time periods
of about 13 weeks each.
- Trophoblast: Cell layer important in early development of the embryo
and fetus. It provides nourishment from the mother to the fetus and
participates in the formation of the placenta.
U
- Umbilical cord: Cord that connects the placenta to the developing
baby. It removes waste products and carbon dioxide from the baby
and brings oxygenated blood and nutrients from the mother through
the placenta to the baby.
- Ureters: Tubes from the kidneys to the bladder that drain urine.
- Uterine atony: lack of tone of uterus.
- Uterus: Organ an embryo/fetus grows in. Also called a womb.
V
- Vacuum extractor: Device used to provide traction on fetal head
during delivery.
- Varicose veins: Blood vessels (veins) that are dilated or enlarged.
- Vernix: Fatty substance made up of epithelial cells that covers fetal
skin inside the uterus.
- Vertex: Head first.
- Villi: Projection from a mucous membrane. Most important within the
placenta in the exchange of nutrients from maternal blood to the
placenta and fetus.
W
Y
- Yeast infection: See Monilial vulvovaginitis; Thrush.
Z
- Zygote: Cell that results from the union of a sperm and egg at fertilization
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Article written By Michlle Graham
http://www.brahoo.co.uk
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