Female reproductive system terms

• Estr/o, Gynec/o

  woman, female
• Hyster/o, metr/o, metri/o

  uterus, womb
• Lact/o

  milk
• mamm/o

  breast
• men/o

  menses, menstruation
• Nat/i

  birth
• o/o, ov/o, ovul/o

  egg
• ovari/o

  ovary
• -arche

  beginning
• gravida

  pregnant
• -rrhea


  discharge, flow
• -tocia


  labor, birth
• menarche 


  Beginning of pubertal sexual development in females

  Onset of menstruation
• amenorrhea

  When menstruation stops during the reproductive years
• gynaecologist

  specialist in the field of medicine that deals with female reproductive system
• oocyte

  Female egg cell (gamete) in its immature form
• oogenesis

  Process in which an oocyte matures into an ovum (occurs around birth)
• ovum

  Mature female gamete
• endometriosis

  condition in which endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus
• Endometrium

  tissue that lines the uterus
• Diagram of female reproductive system

  A) ovary

  B) cervix

  C) vagina

  D) ovary

  E) uterus

  F) fallopian tube