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Descriptor English: Cervical Ripening
Descriptor Spanish: Maduración Cervical
Descriptor maduración cervical
Scope note: Cambio en el CUELLO UTERINO con respecto a su preparación para relajarse. Normalmente el cuello uterino se vuelve más blando y flexible, más distensible y más corto en las últimas semanas del EMBARAZO. Estos cambios cervicales pueden ser también inducidos químicamente (PARTO INDUCIDO).
Descriptor Portuguese: Maturidade Cervical
Descriptor French: Maturation du col utérin
Entry term(s): Cervical Ripenings
Ripening, Cervical
Ripenings, Cervical
Tree number(s): G08.686.784.769.326.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020070
Scope note: A change in the CERVIX UTERI with respect to its readiness to relax. The cervix normally becomes softer, more flexible, more distensible, and shorter in the final weeks of PREGNANCY. These cervical changes can also be chemically induced (LABOR, INDUCED).
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
DE drug effects
EH ethnology
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PX psychology
RE radiation effects
UR urine
Previous Indexing: Cervix Uteri (1976-1998)
Public MeSH Note: 99
History Note: 99
DeCS ID: 33866
Unique ID: D020070
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Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/10
Revision Date: 2016/06/16
Cervical Ripening - Preferred
Concept UI M0029778
Scope note A change in the CERVIX UTERI with respect to its readiness to relax. The cervix normally becomes softer, more flexible, more distensible, and shorter in the final weeks of PREGNANCY. These cervical changes can also be chemically induced (LABOR, INDUCED).
Preferred term Cervical Ripening
Entry term(s) Cervical Ripenings
Ripening, Cervical
Ripenings, Cervical



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