What's the difference between gravidity and pregnancy?
Gravidity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
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.
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).