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Cervical Ripening

"Cervical Ripening" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cervical Ripening" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cervical Ripening" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2021
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