Chadwick's sign


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Chadwick's sign

 [chad´wiks]
a sign of pregnancy consisting of a dark bluish or purplish-red color of the vaginal or cervical mucosa as a result of increased blood supply to the area.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
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