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Obstetrics
Obstetrics
Learning Objectives
- Identify the common processes in obstetrics and explore procedures, diagnostics tests and common complications related to obstetrics
- Describe the specialty of obstetrics and other medical specialties associated with obstetrics
- Analyze, translate, and define medical terms and common abbreviations of obstetrics
- Practice the spelling and pronunciation of obstetric terminology
Key Word Components
Identify meanings of key word components of obstetrics:
Prefixes
- ante- (before)
- dys- (painful, labored, difficult)
- endo- (within)
- in-, intra- (within, inside)
- micro- (small)
- multi- (many)
- neo- (new)
- nulli- (none)
- post- (after)
- pre- (before)
- prim/i- (first)
- retro- (backward, behind)
Combining Forms
- amni/o (amnion, amniotic fluid)
- cephal/o (head)
- cervic/o (cervix)
- chori/o, chorion/o (chorion)
- colp/o (vagina)
- culd/o (rectouterine pouch)
- embry/o (embryo)
- episi/o (vulva)
- esophag/o (esophagus)
- fet/i (fetus, unborn offspring)
- fet/o (fetus, unborn offspring)
- glact/o (milk)
- gravid/o (pregnancy)
- gynec/o (woman)
- hyster/o (uterus)
- lact/o (milk)
- mamm/o (breast)
- mast/o (breast)
- men/o (menstruation)
- metr/o (uterus)
- metri/o (uterus)
- nat/i (birth)
- nat/o (birth)
- obstetr/o (midwife)
- olig/o (scanty, few)
- omphal/o (umbilicus, navel)
- oophor/o (ovary)
- ov/o (ovary)
- ovari/o (ovary)
- ovul/o (ovary)
- par/o (to bear, labor, childbirth, give birth to)
- part/o (to bear, labor, childbirth, give birth to)
- perine/o (perineum)
- pseud/o (false)
- prim/i (first)
- pseud/o (false)
- puerper/o (childbirth)
- pylor/o (pylorus, pyloric sphincter)
- salping/o (uterine tube)
- terat/o (malformations)
- uter/o (uterus)
- vagin/o (vagina)
- vulv/o (vulva)
Suffixes
- -a (no meaning, noun ending)
- -al (pertaining to)
- -amnios (amnion, amniotic fluid)
- -arche/o (beginning, first)
- -cyesis (pregnancy)
- -e (noun ending, no meaning)
- -gen (substance that produced, agent that produced)
- -genic (producing, originating, causing)
- -graphy (process of recording)
- -ic (pertaining to)
- -is (noun suffix, no meaning)
- -itis (inflammation)
- -logist (specialist who studies and treats, physician who studies and treats)
- -logy (study of)
- -oid (resembling)
- -oma (tumor)
- -parous (having given birth)
- -rrhea (discharge, flow)
- -rrhexis (rupture)
- -salpinx (tube or uterine tube)
- -stenosis (constriction, narrowing)
- -tocia (birth, labor)
- -tomy (incision, cut into)
- -um (noun ending, no meaning)
- -us (noun ending, no meaning)
- -version (turned, turning, for example turning the fetus)
Obstetrics Words
Obstetrics Medical Terms (Text version)
Practice the following words related to obstetrics by breaking into word parts and pronouncing. Audio recordings of word pronunciations are available through the online book.
- amnionitis
- amnion/itis
- *rebel does not follow the rules
- inflammation of the amnion
- oligohydramnios
- olig/o/hydr/amnios
- scanty amnion water
- a conditio