Reproductive

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Any steroid hormone that increases male characteristics.

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Androgen

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A naturally occurring androgenic hormone.

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Testosterone

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A gland in men that surrounds the neck of the bladder and the urethra and produces a secretion that liquefies coagulated semen.

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Prostate Gland

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A decrease in the production of female hormones and the cessation of menstruation. Usually occurs after age 45 or when female reproductive organs are removed.

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Menopause

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Attraction to the same sex

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Homosexual

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Attraction to the opposite sex

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Heterosexual

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Device, substance, or method used to prevent pregnancy.

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Contraceptive

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Absensce or suppression of menstruation.

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Amenorrhea

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An inability to maintain an erection of the penis.

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Impotence

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Uterine bleeding outside the menstrual cycle

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Metrorrhagia

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Causing malformations in a fetus.

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Teratogenic

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Inflammation of the prostate gland due to bacterial infection, sometimes causing urinary obstruction.

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Prostatitis

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Below normal gonad (sex gland) function

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Hypogonadism

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Increased production of gonad-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary gland.

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Hypergonadotropic

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Accumulation of watery fluid, especially about the testis

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Hydrocele

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Sexually transmitted, virus-like microorganism causing conjunctivitis, urethritis, and cervicitis

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Chlamydia

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A sexually transmitted disease

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STD

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Irritation of the vagina due to inflammation or infection, causing burning pain and discharge.

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Vaginitis

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Any infectious disease transmitted by sexual contact, now usually called sexually transmitted disease social disease.

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Venereal Disease (VD)

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Vaginal appliance or medicated suppository

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Pessary

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Aiding Childbirth

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Parturient

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The release of an egg from one of the ovaries

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Ovulation

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The discharge of blood and tissue from the uterus that occurs when an egg is not fertilized.

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Menstruation

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The remains of the egg follicle after ovulation

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Corpus Luteum

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Physical and emotional changes as sexual maturity gives way to cessation of reproductive function in females and testosterone decreases in males.

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Climacteric

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Referring to the chorion or membrane enclosing the fetus

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Chorionic

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Painful, difficult menstruation

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Dysmenorrhea

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A benign cyst that forms on an ovary and usually resolves on its own without treatment

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Functional Cyst

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Sac-like structure that forms inside an ovary when an egg is produced.

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Follicle

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A condition in which tissue simliar to that normally lining the uterus is found outside of the uterus, usually the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and other pelvic structures.

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Endometriosis

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State in which fertilized egg implants at a site other than the uterus.

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Ectopic Pregnancy

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Convulsions, especially due to toxemia during pregnancy.

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Eclampsia

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Pertaining to the uterus.

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Uterine

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The mucous membrane lining the uterus.

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Endometrium