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Incompetent UTERINE CERVIX is usually diagnosed in the second trimester of PREGNANCY. It is characterized by passive painless cervical dilation in the absence of UTERINE CONTRACTION; BLEEDING; INFECTION; and sometimes with the amniotic sac (AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE) bulging through the partially dilated cervix. Left untreated, this condition may lead to premature pregnancy loss, such as HABITUAL ABORTION.
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- Cervix Incompetence
- Incompetent Cervix
- Cervical Incompetence, Uterine
- Cervices, Incompetent
- Cervix, Incompetent
- Incompetence, Cervix
- Incompetence, Uterine Cervical
- Incompetent Cervices
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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check the tags FEMALE & PREGNANCY
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2006 (1973)
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- Abortion, Habitual (1966-1972)
- Cervix Diseases (1966-1972)
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- National Library of Medicine. Uterine Cervical Incompetence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002581. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002581
- Uterine Cervical Incompetence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_weakness
- Uterine Cervical Incompetence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2563414