A bluish color to the cervix during pregnancy is called (the):
a. McDonald sign.
b. Spinnbarkeit.
c. Goodell sign.
d. Chadwick sign.
D
The Chadwick sign is a bluish color to the cervix during pregnancy. The Goodell sign is an in-crease in vascularity and softening of the cervix. Spinnbarkeit refers to the quality of elastic mu-cus during mittelschmerz, and the McDonald sign is fundal flexing on the cervix.
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