(a.) Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.
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Gravid
Definition:
(a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.
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(1) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
(2) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(3) The present study, which fails to show augmented synthesis of PGs by renal tissues derived from gravid rats, is consistent with our previous investigation in which cyclooxygenase inhibition did not reduce the gestational increase of renal hemodynamics or restore the attenuated renal pressor responsiveness to exogenous angiotensin II.
(4) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(5) Lesions associated with Philometroides huronensis in the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) of southern Ontario occurred during the spring (April-June) and were related to the development and release of first-stage larvae from the gravid nematode.
(6) Gravid uterine oxygen uptake and estrone sulfate release and gravid uterine and uteroplacental lactate output were influenced by the interaction between cow and fetal breed.
(7) The female mice were examined for gravidity 19 days after the onset of the breeding cycle.
(8) Oviposition behavior of infected females is prolonged and mimics that of normal gravid females in their first gonotropic cycle.
(9) Using specific antibody raised against renal renin, we have documented that the majority of the uterine renin-like activity in gravid and nongravid uteri is immunoreactive renin.
(10) Straw meal integration had a gravidity-conditioned influence on the daily N balance.
(11) Ten of these suffered from severe gravidic hyperemesis, while twenty had a physiological pregnancy.
(12) The positivity rate for the circumsporozoite protein (CS) of P. falciparum in blood-fed or gravid An.
(13) No relationship in antibody reactivity to the 3 synthetic peptides of the RESA molecule was observed by gravidity (0, 1, or greater than or equal to 2), age, initial parasite density or response to treatment.
(14) The breeding of mosquito larvae in the field is determined by the ovipositing behaviour of the gravid females.
(15) The following variables were not significantly associated with the onset of premature labor: maternal age, parity, gravidity, diabetic class according to White, presence of renal disease or retinopathy, previous elective abortion, chronic hypertension or pregnancy-induced hypertension, cigarette smoking, first-trimester or post-20 weeks' gestation vaginal bleeding, maternal serum magnesium concentration, or polyhydramnios.
(16) An average of 35% (432 foxes) were infected, mostly with low to medium numbers of gravid worms producing thick-shelled eggs.
(17) It is responsible for gravidic postural shock, and an increased abdominal pressure, exceeding 20 mmHg.
(18) We propose that the species be designated as L. europaensis and we describe the characteristics of the gravid female.
(19) We prospectively randomized and compared outcomes of 62 gravid women with manual (n = 31) or spontaneous (n = 31) placental delivery at cesarean section.
(20) Before such complete system of reproduction control can be used, further studies are required into some fundamental aspects of the problem, including calving control, pregnancy examination, and gravidity hagiene.