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cervical mucus arborization
The occurrence of a fernlike pattern when uterine cervix mucus is allowed to dry for ten minutes on a glass slide and is then examined microscopically.

It is indicative of the presence of estrogen, which alters the concentration of sodium chloride in the mucus.

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