What's the difference between miscarriage and pregnancy?

Miscarriage


Definition:

  • (n.) Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
  • (n.) Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
  • (n.) The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of 222 pregnancies, with repeated spontaneous miscarriages confirms the clear preponderance of girls, among the non-premature and well-formed children born, and the efficiency of H.C.G.
  • (2) "No one is protected by miscarriages of justice, which recruit more terrorists than they ever prevent."
  • (3) Although, as she said in her statement to MPs, there were no deaths and no miscarriage of justice, there is copious evidence that the police at the least mislaid the rule book in their attempt to break the miners’ strike.
  • (4) Opponents of Grayling's proposals say that cutting legal aid will lead to more miscarriages of justice.
  • (5) Female fertility drops steeply above the age of 35 and the risk of miscarriage increases: at the age of 40 and above, 40% of pregnancies will be miscarried.
  • (6) Of the more than 1 million annual adolescent pregnancies, 400,000 are aborted, 470,000 are born to term, and the rest result in spontaneous miscarriage.
  • (7) But there is a problem with someone who has shown no remorse for their crimes, and more than that, is running a miscarriage of justice campaign, going back to a large platform to promote that campaign, and that’s not acceptable.” She pointed out that Evans was denied leave to appeal.
  • (8) The prevalence of miscarriages was significantly, higher in HIV+ women than in HIV- ones (p less than 0.001).
  • (9) There were no significant differences in radiation doses between the women who had miscarriages and those who did not.
  • (10) It was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
  • (11) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
  • (12) The spontaneous miscarriage rate was 2.7 per cent occurring within the first 16 weeks.
  • (13) The present analysis, which concerns 5700 pregnancies experienced by the participants in the investigation, adds to the evidence that ex-users of oral contraceptives and intrauterine devices suffer no delecterious effects on the outcome of pregnancy in terms of miscarriage, ectopic gestation, stillbirth, congenital malformation, alteration in the sex ratio or reduction in birth weight.
  • (14) There was no significant correlation between the BMD at either the lumbar spine or the proximal femur and the number of miscarriages (r = 0.03 and 0.01, respectively).
  • (15) Leyland regularly took to Twitter to draw attention to what she felt was an appalling miscarriage of justice.
  • (16) The miscarriages and neonatal deaths of Queen Anne are believed to have been caused by an asymptomatic listeria monocytogenes infection.
  • (17) The Department of Health advises that alcohol is to be avoided in pregnancy, while the independent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence advises women to avoid alcohol in the first three months of pregnancy because of the risk of a miscarriage.
  • (18) What happened to her was beyond horrific, she suffered that night, she suffered in prison and she is still suffering.” Ibrahim’s lawyer, Nigel Richardson, is preparing to submit her case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which pursues miscarriages of justice.
  • (19) A greater use of allylestrenol in the first global evaluation was explained by a higher incidence in these groups of impending miscarriage and preterm labor, which are indications for allylestrenol therapy.
  • (20) The histological presence and distribution of hPL was investigated in endometrial curettings from 90 patients studied retrospectively (47 had ectopic pregnancies, 14 miscarriages, and 29 legal abortions), and a consecutive, prospective series of 50 patients (40 had miscarriages and 10 had ectopic pregnancies) without chorionic villi in their endometrial curettings.

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).