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| M | Mask of pregnancy, the term, which is used to describe the increase pigmentation in the area of the face under the eyes. As a rule it is of a shape of a butterfly.
Meconium is the first intestinal discharge, of green or yellow colour of the newborn baby. It consists of epithelial or of surface cells, of bile and of mucous. This discharge may take place shortly before, during the delivery process as well as soon after the arrival.
Medication:
1. some drug or medicine;
2. the process of administration of some drug or medicine.
Melanoma is called any pigmented mole or tumour. It may be cancerous, and it may not be cancerous.
Meningomyelocele is the term, used to describe the congenital defect of the central nervous system of the baby. It occurs in case if the membranes along with the spinal cord get protruded through the opening or defect in the vertebral column.
Menstruation is called the regular or periodic discharge of bloody fluid from the uterus.
Mesodermal germ layer is the tissue of the embryo, which forms many organs, such as muscles, kidneys, ureters, etc as well as all connective tissues of the baby’s organism.
Metaplasia is any change in the structure of a tissue into another type, which it considered to be not normal for that very tissue.
Microcephaly is the term, which is used to describe the abnormally small development of the head of the fetus.
Microphthalmia is the phenomenon of abnormally small eyeballs.
Milk letdown is the term, which is used to describe tingling and cramping in the breast of a woman, which are usually felt when her breast milk flows into the breast ducts.
Miscarriage is called a spontaneous abortion before the 20th week of pregnancy. As a rule it is accompanied with bleeding and / or cramping, however, it is also possible to occur without any feeling of discomfort.
Missed abortion is when pregnancy ended up with miscarriage, however, without any bleeding or cramping and other feeling of discomfort. It is possible that missed abortion may be diagnosed with the help of an ultrasound investigation weeks or even month after it occurred.
Mittelschmerz is the feeling of pain, which coincides with the release of an egg form one of the ovaries during the process of ovulation.
Monilial vulvovaginitis is the type of infection which is caused by yeast or monilia. As a rule it affects vagina and / or vulva.
Monozygotic twins are twins, which are conceived from two sperms, and one egg. They are also called identical twins.
Morning sickness is one of the early signs of pregnancy – it is feeling of nausea and vomiting without any evident reason. As a rule it occurs during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Moruaa are called cells, which develop in the result from the early division of the fertilized egg at the very beginning of pregnancy.
Mucus is a term, used to describe a sticky substance, which is produced by glands.
Mucus plug is the name of some specific cervical secretions, which come out of the uterus just before the delivery begins.
Mutations are considered to be any changes, which occur in the character of a gene. Mutation passes from one cell division to another.
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