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pregnancy

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus [syn: gestation , maternity ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) The condition of being pregnant. 2 The period of time this condition prevail. 3 (context uncountable English) The progression of stages from conception to birth.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a pregnancy test (= to find out if someone is pregnant ) ectopic pregnancy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE early ▪ If caught during the early weeks of pregnancy it can cause deafness, blindness and heart problems ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pregnancy \Preg"nan*cy\, n. The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young. Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility. --Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s (originally figurative), from pregnant (adj.1) + -cy . Literal use attested from 1590s.

Usage examples of pregnancy.

Keen reports the successful performance of a hip-joint amputation for malignant disease of the femur during pregnancy.

Algora speaks of an abdominal pregnancy in which there was spontaneous perforation of the anterior abdominal parietes, followed by death.

Pigne speaks of a woman of thirty-eight, who in the eighth month of her sixth pregnancy was gored by a bull, the horn effecting a transverse wound 27 inches long, running from one anterior spine to the other.

Priscilla replied brittly, somehow managing to convey through her tone that she meant no problem with the physical aspects of the pregnancy.

The symptoms which indicate pregnancy are cessation of the menses, enlargement of the mammae, nausea, especially in the morning, distention of the abdomen, and movement of the foetus.

In the absence of all apparent influences calculated to obstruct the menses, the presumption ordinarily is that pregnancy is the cause of their non-appearance.

Mistakes are so easily made in the date of the occurrence of pregnancy, or in the date of conception, that in the remarkable cases we can hardly accept the propositions as worthy evidence unless associated with other and more convincing facts, such as the appearance and stage of development of the fetus, or circumstances making conception impossible before or after the time mentioned, etc.

There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.

Celia had suffered some unease on first learning that it was intended for pregnant women, to be taken early in their pregnancy when nausea and morning sickness were most prevalent onditions which Montayne would banish.

According to tradepress reports which Celia read before leaving with Andrew on their tour, Montayne was at once widely prescribed and popular, especially with women who continued to be employed during pregnancy and to whom relief from morning sickness was critically important.

A few babies, among them premature ones, had already been born in the United States with deformities similar to those in other countries where the mothers of defective children had taken Montayne during pregnancy.

In two of the cases the hysteropexy had been performed over five years before the pregnancy occurred, and, although the bands of adhesion between the fundus and the parietes must have become very tough after so long a period, no special difficulty was encountered.

January, 1873, she had an attack of pain with peritonitis, shortly after which what was apparently an extrauterine pregnancy gradually diminished.

Her symptoms are headaches and an overproduction of prolactin, resulting in unpleasant symptoms that mimic pregnancy.

By cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman pregnant six and a half months, without interruption, and according to Mann again, McClintock extracted stones from the bladder by the urethra in the fourth month of pregnancy, and Phillips did the same in the seventh month.