Review Article
Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume: 8 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 334-343
Health Ailments of Asian Women in Pregnancy
Dr. Debosree Ghosh1, Suvendu Ghosh2, Syed Benazir Firdaus1, Partha Sarathi Singha3
1Department of Physiology, 3Department of Chemistry,
Government General Degree College, Kharagpur II, P.O Madpur, Dist - Paschim Medinipur, Pin: 721149, West Bengal, India
2Department of Physiology, Hooghly Mohsin College, P.O. - Chinsurah, Dist. - Hooghly, Pin-712 101, West Bengal, India
Corresponding Author: Dr. Debosree Ghosh
ABSTRACT
Pregnancy may be defined as a condition when a female conceives the fertilized ovum in her uterus and it matures and develops with time to a full grown baby. The average length of human gestation is 280 days, or 40 weeks, from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. [1] During this period of time, the developing embryo derives all its necessary nutrition and requirements from the mother’s body. And the woman’s body undergoes several consecutive sequential physiological changes to adapt to the new situation of the growing foetus inside her womb. Though most of those changes are reversible yet some changes the mother has to carry for the rest of her life.
Key words: Pregnancy, ovum, embryo, foetus, womb.