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    Menstrual Cycle episodic uterine bleeding in response to cyclic hormonal changes Purpose To bring an ovum to maturity Renew a uterine tissue bed bleeding between menses Dysmenorrhea Painful menstruation Characteristics of normal menstrual cycles Characteristics Menarche Length of cycles Duration Amount Color Odor Description 11-13 years, 9-17 years 23-35 days, 28 days 2-7 days, 1-9 days 30-80 ml Dark red

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    Menstrual Cycle episodic uterine bleeding in response to cyclic hormonal changes Purpose To bring an ovum to maturity Renew a uterine tissue bed bleeding between menses Dysmenorrhea Painful menstruation Characteristics of normal menstrual cycles Characteristics Menarche Length of cycles Duration Amount Color Odor Description 11-13 years, 9-17 years 23-35 days, 28 days 2-7 days, 1-9 days 30-80 ml Dark red

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    Menstrual Cycle episodic uterine bleeding in response to cyclic hormonal changes Purpose To bring an ovum to maturity Renew a uterine tissue bed bleeding between menses Dysmenorrhea Painful menstruation Characteristics of normal menstrual cycles Characteristics Menarche Length of cycles Duration Amount Color Odor Description 11-13 years, 9-17 years 23-35 days, 28 days 2-7 days, 1-9 days 30-80 ml Dark red

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    Menstrual
    Cycle

    Menstrual cycle
    • episodic uterine bleeding in response to cyclic
    hormonal changes

    Purpose
    • To bring an ovum to maturity
    • Renew a uterine tissue bed

    Amenorrhea
    • Absence of menstraution
    Menopause
    • Cessation of menstruation
    Menorrhagia
    • Excessive menstruation
    Polymenorrhagia
    • Frequent menstruation
    Metrorrhagia
    • Bleeding between menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    • Painful menstruation

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    Characteristics of normal menstrual


    cycles
    Characteristics Description

    Menarche 11-13 years, 9-17 years

    Length of cycles 23-35 days, 28 days

    Duration 2-7 days, 1-9 days

    Amount 30-80 ml

    Color Dark red

    Odor Marigolds

    Four body structures


    Hypothalamus

    Anterior Pituitary gland

    Ovaries

    Uterus

    Anterior pituitary gland


    FSH
    • Active early in the cycle
    • Maturation of ovum
    • Increase estrogen

    LH
    • Most active at the midpoint of the cycle
    • Responsible for ovulation or release of mature
    egg cell from ovary
    • Growth of the uterine lining during the second
    half of the menstrual cycle
    • Interstitial cell stimulating hormone

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    ovary
    ESTROGEN
    • Hormone for women
    • consist of three compounds estrone (E1),
    estradiol (E2), estriol (E3)
    • Thickens endometrium
    • Inhibits secretion of FSH

    PROGESTERONE
    • Hormone for pregnant women
    • Helps maintain the endometrium
    • Inhibits secretion of LH

    ovulation
    • primordial follicle (5-7 million)
    Birth – 2 million
    7 years of age – 500,000
    22 years of age – 300,000
    • Signs:

    spinnbarkeit test
    fern test
    increase in basal body temperature

    • Proliferative/ follicular/ postmenstrual/


    estrogenic
    low estrogen causes hypothalamus to
    release GnRh. Cervical mucus becomes
    abundant. Endometrium becomes highly
    vascular, with it’s thickness increasing by
    eightfolds.
    • Secretory/ ovulation/ progestational
    Phases
    estrogen level increases thereby inhibiting
    the pituitary to secrete FSH, releasing the
    LH. Endometrium becomes very soft,
    spongy and edematous.

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    phases
    • Ischemic
    after 7 days from ovulation, corpus luteum
    degenerates (8-10 days)
    production of estrogen & progesterone decreases
    capillaries rupture with minute hemorrhages
    endometrium sloughs off
    • Menstruation
    blood from the ruptured capillaries
    mucin from glands
    fragments of endometrial tissue
    microscopic, atrophied & unfertilized ovum
    11 mg

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