(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).
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.
(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.