Reproductive/Endocrine Terms
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- Orchectomy
- castration
- Cortical
- pertaining to the cortex
- Endometritis
- inflammation of the lining of the uterus
- Fetus
- an unborn animal
- Lactation
- function of secreting milk
- Oogenesis
- formation and developement of the ova in the ovaries
- Anenoma
- tumor of a gland
- Pseudocyesis
- false pregnancy
- Sperm
- male reproductive cell
- Hypocalcemia
- abnormally low blood calcium
- Umbilicus
- the scar that marks the former attachment of the umbilical cord to the fetus
- Neonate
- new born animal
- Prenatal
- before birth
- Endocrine
- internal secretion; a gland that secretes directly into the blood stream
- Dystocia
- difficult labor
- Estrus
- heat; cycle of sexual receptibility of female animal
- Hyperglycemia
- increase above normal surgar in the blood
- Spermatogenesis
- formation and developement of sperm in the testes
- Mastectomy
- excision of the breast
- Postpartum
- occuring after birth
- Ovulation
- periodic release of the ova from the ovary
- Ovariohysterectomy
- spay surgery;excision of the ovaries and uterus
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Ovum(singular)
Ova (plural) - female reproductive cell
- Pyometritis
- purulent inflammation of the uterus
- Placenta
- spongy structure in the uterus through which the fetus derives nourishment
- Puberty
- time when animal becomes capable of reproduction