What's the difference between gravid and pregnant?

Gravid


Definition:

  • (a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Pregnant


Definition:

  • (a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
  • (a.) Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
  • (a.) Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.
  • (n.) A pregnant woman.
  • (a.) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (2) 5 pregnant insulin-dependent diabetics were also studied.
  • (3) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (4) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
  • (5) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) Results of a detailed study of the fibrinolytic enzyme system in pregnant and non-pregnant Nigerians are reported.
  • (8) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
  • (9) In umbilical cord blood a higher level of lipoperoxide was observed in patients with toxemia of pregnancy than in normal pregnant women.
  • (10) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
  • (11) Intravenous injection of Cd2+ to the pregnant rat on day 12 causes a dose-dependent inhibition of placental Zn2+ transport.
  • (12) Progesterone levels declined after Day 18 of the cycle in cycling mares, whereas they increased in the pregnant mares.
  • (13) Treatment with the antithyroid drug had been discontinued by herself when she was 19 years old until she was 24 years old, when she was pregnant and consulted our hospital.
  • (14) Serum ferritin was measured in 51 term normal pregnant mothers and the corresponding cord blood samples.
  • (15) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
  • (16) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
  • (17) Management in pregnant females or in males with indwelling catheters or before prostatic surgery presents special problems.
  • (18) Five pregnant renal transplant patients had seven [99mTc]DTPA renal studies to assess allograft perfusion and function.
  • (19) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
  • (20) However, nonimmune adults, including pregnant women, are at greater risk for complications and mortality when they contract varicella.

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