FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Passive Smoking, Ovulation, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

Senescence: senescence a gradual physical decline related to aging. Senescence occurs in everyone and in every body part, but the rate of decline is highly variable within and between persons. In the past 40 years, advances in medicine have solved about half of all fertility problems. In virtro fertilization (ivf) a technique in which ova (egg cells) are surgically removed from a woman and fertilized with sperm in a laboratory. After the original fertilized cells (the zygotes) have divided several times, they are inserted into the woman"s uterus. In addition, multitasking becomes harder, processing takes longer, and complex working-memory tasks become much more difficult. Declining hormones: over the decades of adulthood, the level of hormones in the bloodstream decreases, altering sleep patterns, appetite, and the appearance changes just noted. Menopause: menopause the time in middle age, usually around age 50, when a woman"s menstrual periods cease and the production of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone drops.