Biology

Pregnancy and Childbirth

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This hub covers essential biology questions on pregnancy, fetal development, and childbirth. Topics include the placenta, maternal physiology, and the stages of labor. These concepts are frequently tested in general science sections of various competitive examinations.

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Pregnancy and Childbirth Questions

Multiple choice

Placental tumor with no embryo development is referred to as

  1. chronic intervillositis

  2. abruptio placenta

  3. vasa previa

  4. placenta percreta

  5. hydatidiform mole
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Placental tumor with no embryo development is known as hydatidiform mole. Several forms of hydatidiform mole: partial mole, complete mole and persistent gestational trophoblastic tumor.

Multiple choice

Intrauterine adhesions, that occur when the basal layer of the endometrium is damaged by instrumentation or infection, are seen in which of the following diseased conditions?

  1. Fibroids

  2. Pyometra

  3. Adenomyosis

  4. Asherman's syndrome

  5. Rokitansky syndrome
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Asherman's syndrome occurs when the basal layer of the endometrium is damaged by instrumentation or infection resulting in endometrial scarring followed by adhesion formation which partially or completely obliterates the uterine cavity.

Multiple choice

A pregnant woman, who has done amniocentesis test, finds an extra barr body in her embryo. The syndrome that is associated with the embryo is

  1. Patau's syndrome

  2. Klinfelter's syndrome

  3. Down's syndrome

  4. Edward syndrome

  5. Turner's syndrome
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Klinefelter syndrome or Klinefelter's syndrome, is the set of symptoms resulting from additional X genetic material in males. This extra barr body is due to presence of extra X chromosome in it.

Multiple choice

A causes miscarriage to B. A is liable for

  1. culpable homicide of the unborn child

  2. murder of unborn child

  3. grievous hurt to B

  4. death by negligence

  5. No offence
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C Correct answer
Explanation

A causes miscarriage to B, which causes B to be in severe pain. Hence, A would be held guilty of causing grievous hurt.

Multiple choice

Pregnancy per alium means

  1. pre-marriage pregnancy

  2. pre-marriage unchastity

  3. post-marriage unchastity

  4. Both (1) and (2)

  5. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Per alium is a Latin word which means "by another". It means pregnancy of a woman at the time of her marriage by someone other than her husband. If the husband was unaware of the true facts of pregnancy, then the marriage is voidable.

Multiple choice

Which type of placenta is seen in humans?

  1. Diffuse placenta

  2. Intermediate placenta

  3. Zonary placenta

  4. Cotyledonary placenta

  5. Metadiscoidal placenta
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Metadiscoidal placenta – The placenta in which the villi are initially distributed uniformly all over the surface but later on get confined to a disc – like area fitting into corresponding depression on the uterine wall, for example  humans and apes.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the correct reason of facial nerve injury during forceps delivery in labour?

  1. When the mastoid process is absent at birth.

  2. When the parotid gland is in developing stage.

  3. When the beak of the forceps engages the main trunk of facial nerve.

  4. When the sublingual hematoma during delivery causes neuropraxia.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

New born facial paralysis is estimated to have an incidence of about 0.23% of live births. The most common cause is birth trauma (80%).This is due to difficult delivery with/ without forceps and leads to facial swelling, bruising over the mastoid, bruising over extratemporal course of the nerve and hemotympanum, causing compression over facial nerve, which can lead to facial paralysis. Therefore early decompression of the treatment of choice in traumatic nerve injury.