Any abnormalities found after examination of the vulva, vagina, and cervix (e.g., discharge, inflammation, clinical diagnosis of STI, etc).
If that Lactobacillus population is somehow disrupted, foreign bacteria can colonize the vagina and cause inflammation in the cervix that can trigger premature birth, Bennett says.
Inflammation of the cervix is referred to as cervicitis.
White blood cells (WBC), or leukocytes, are a typical indication of an inflammation of the cervix.
4, 5 Symptomatic trichomoniasis can cause mild to moderate inflammation of the cervix, vagina, and urethra.
Histopathologic examination revealed chronic inflammation of the cervix with no residual tumor.
Other potential reasons for the high frequency of NSC and lack of association with typical cervicitis-causing organisms may include ongoing inflammation of the cervix after previously treated chlamydial or gonorrhoeal infections, perhaps mediated by an abnormal immune response [ 2].
Cervicitis, inflammation of the uterine cervix, the small, thick-walled tube that is the protruding extension of the uterus (womb) leading into the vagina.
The parasite Chlamydia trachomatis causes a variety of disorders in women, urethritis, cervicitis, and salpingitis (inflammation of the ureter, cervix, and fallopian tubes, respectively) and, in men, nongonococcal urethritis.
Indeed, 40% to 60% of genes up-regulated in the myometrium and cervix at labor are involved in inflammation and chemotaxis.
