Gynecology (from the Greek γυναίκα - woman + λόγος - study) is a branch of medicine that studies diseases that are characteristic only of a woman's body, first of all, diseases of the female reproductive system. Most gynecologists today are also obstetricians. Gynecology is closely related to obstetrics, which studies the phenomena in the female body related to pregnancy and childbirth, from the moment of conception to the end of the postpartum period; it is also close to surgery and other departments of practical medicine - nervous, internal diseases, etc .; outstanding representatives of gynecology were in the overwhelming majority at the same time obstetricians or surgeons; but a woman's sex life is so complex, so influences the functions of all the organs of her body, and the pathological changes in her sexual sphere are so numerous and varied that gynecology has by itself become a separate science, and, as experience shows, it is not in vain, unfortunately, that there is a great the number of diseases that are characteristic only of the female body. Pathologies related to the female genital area are characteristic both for very young women and for women of a more mature age.