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The word is used medically in one of three ways: (1) part of a sequence, as in primary follicle, secondary follicle, tertiary follicle; (2) when a person has a precedent for a contrary state (eg secondary amenorrhea, when a woman has had at least one spontaneous menstrual period, but then menstruation stops; secondary dysmenorrhea means periods that have painful after having been not so -- or not-so-much; secondary infertility means having trouble getting pregnant despite having become ...
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| secondary amenorrhea |
Absent periods (amenorrhea) when a woman has had at least one previous spontaneous menstrual period, but then menstruation stops. See also secondary.
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| secondary infertility |
Trouble getting pregnant (infertility) in someone who has previously had a successful or potentially successful pregnancy. ...
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| secondary oocyte |
The form of the oocyte, or egg, produced from the primary oocyte late in the life of the maturing follicle, just before ovulation. The egg stays at this stage until fertilization by a sperm cell (spermatozoon). See also meiosis.
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| secondary spermatocyte |
The form of the sperm cell in the second stage of spermatogenesis (through which the sperm cells are formed in the testes), produced from primary spermatocytes in the first cell division of meiosis, and giving rise to spermatids, which have just half the normal cell
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