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What stimulates contractions in uterine smooth muscle during labor?
Oxytocin
What type of muscles are in the uterine wall?
Uterine muscle cells help make up the myometrium, which is the inner layer of the uterine wall. These muscle cells aid in inducing uterine contractions. They support stromal and vascular tissue as well.
Which chemical causes contractions in the human body?
Oxytocin is a natural hormone produced by a woman's body that causes uterine contractions. They use Pitocin, which is a synthetic oxytocin drug, to induce labor.
What stage of labor lasts from four to twenty-four hours and includes strong uterine contractions that cause the cervix to open and may rupture the amniotic sac?
the first stage of labor.
What are the structure for the pathway of a secondary oocyte?
In what order does the pathway of a second Oocyte ampulla of uterine, body of uterus, fimbriae of uterine tube, fundus of uterus, infundibulum of uterine tube, isthmus of uterine tube and ovary
What is the medical term meaning uterine contractions?
Uterine contractions have the same name in medical terminology and lay language. The medical terminology combining form meaning uterine contractions is toco-.
Oxytocin is a strong stimulant of uterine contractions.?
Ture
What hormone stimulates uterine contractions for the birth process?
Oxytocin
What effect does the medication tocolytic have?
A medication that inhibits uterine contractions.
What are afterpains?
Afterpains is the pain caused by uterine contractions experienced after childbirth.
What stimulates contractions in uterine smooth muscle during labor?
Oxytocin
What does the medical abbreviation UC mean?
UC means Uterine Contractions.
What are the signs of contractions?
The strongest indication that contractions are occurring in association with true labor is that the contractions begin to occur at regular intervals. This is contrary to Braxton-Hicks contractions, which are spontaneous, random uterine contractions that do not occur with actual labor.
What type of contractions are intermittent painless uterine contractions that are not true labor pains?
I think you may be referring to what are called "Braxton-Hicks" contractions.
What causes reverse uterine contractions?
I would like to know what causes reversed contractions Have never met anyone who knows Fifty years ago, the doctor said I had reversed contractions while giving birth, thus leading to a C-Section. many people I have talked to in the medical field say there is no such thing as reversed uterine contractions.
Are contractions in the uterus a process regulated by negative or positive feedback?
Uterine contractions are one of the few physiologic process regulated by positive feedback.
What type of muscles are in the uterine wall?
Uterine muscle cells help make up the myometrium, which is the inner layer of the uterine wall. These muscle cells aid in inducing uterine contractions. They support stromal and vascular tissue as well.
