(n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
Example Sentences:
(1) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
(2) Abnormal prenatal findings included maternal pre-eclampsia, fetal growth retardation, and progressive intracranial sonolucency of the trisomic fetus.
(3) From 1980 to 1986, head computed tomographic scans were performed in 49 women with eclampsia managed according to the standardized regimen used at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
(4) Preeclampsia-eclampsia and trophoblastic disease have been associated with a wormlike organism, Hydatoxi lualba, recently discovered in smears from circulating blood, trophoblastic tumor tissue, and placental tissue of toxemic patients.
(5) Some cases of eclampsia and severe pre-eclampsia satisfy all the criteria for the diagnosis of TTP syndrome.
(6) The most common causes of direct obstetrical deaths were hemorrhage, infection and vascular accidents, in that order; pre-eclampsia ranked a distant fourth.
(7) No strong pattern of differences from normal pregnancy or pre-eclampsia emerged when growth retarded infants were studied as a separate group.
(8) Some investigators have described immunohistologic findings (presence of IgM, IgG and fibrin) which they believe specific for pre-eclampsia, and others have claimed the disease may cause focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS).
(9) At age of one day manifested an eclampsia, which was hardly diminishable.
(10) Oxygen free radicals and lipid peroxides might form the link between the hypothetical immunologic maladaptation and the endothelial cell damage known to occur in pre-eclampsia.
(11) The patients with pre-eclampsia showed a greater degree of immunosuppression during pregnancy than the normotensive controls.
(12) The major causes of maternal mortality were haemorrhage, obstructed labour, eclampsia, anaemia of pregnancy and infection.
(13) Plasma levels of antithrombin III were tested during pregnancy in a control group of normal patients and in a study group that included patients with moderate and severe pre-eclampsia and chronic hypertension.
(14) Low zinc concentrations in plasma have been reported in pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia and intra-uterine growth retardation, as well as in non-pregnant individuals with gastrointestinal and eating disorders.
(15) The incidence of pre-eclampsia in 125 primigravidas who had previously received blood-transfusions was significantly less than in a matched series of controls--i.e., 12.8% compared with 23.2%.
(16) Eclampsia developed at less than or equal to 20 weeks in 6 patients and beyond 48 hours post partum in 40 (16%).
(17) In 32 cases the diagnosis was preeclampsia, in 8 cases--eclampsia, in 28 cases III degree nephropathy.
(18) Thus, rheological factors may be partly responsible for the clinical consequences of pre-eclampsia.
(19) Further, drugs currently administered to pregnant women for the treatment of pre-term labor and pre-eclampsia cross the placenta and can directly alter bladder function in the developing fetus and the neonate.
(20) A case of eclampsia with interesting angiographic findings is reported.
Pregnancy
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
(n.) Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(3) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(4) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
(5) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(6) The multiple pregnancy rate was 18% and the abortion rate, 18%.
(7) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(8) Four cases of pregnancies in two women with tricuspid atresia (TA) are described.
(9) Maternal diabetes and antihistamine use during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy were associated with significantly higher rates of retrolental fibroplasia, whereas toxemia was associated with lower rates.
(10) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
(11) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(14) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(15) Maternal plasma levels of cortiocotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) have been measured in abnormal pregnancy states to assess their potential as biochemical markers for at-risk pregnancies.
(16) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(17) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
(18) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(19) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(20) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).