What's the difference between pregnancy and primigravid?
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).
Primigravid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) To determine the effects of aerobic fitness on pregnancy and the newborn, 20 primigravid subjects were studied throughout gestation and immediately postpartum.
(3) Two-dimensional and M-mode echocardiograms were obtained during the thirty-second week of gestation from 69 women classified as follows: group I, 22 normotensive primigravid women; group II, 16 primigravid women with pregnancy-induced hypertension; group III, 21 percent women with essential hypertension; and group IV, 10 normotensive nonpregnant control subjects.
(4) The incidence of pre-eclampsia was compared between the three study groups and analysed separately for primigravid and multigravid women.
(5) Reactivity to RESA showed the lowest titres in primigravid women, intermediate titres in nulligravid women and the highest titres in multigravid women (loge mean antibody = 3.28, 4.64, and 5.28, respectively, P less than 0.03), but was not associated with initial parasite density or response to chloroquine treatment.
(6) The present study was designed to ascertain sequentially the pressor response to angiotensin II in young primigravid patients throughout pregnancy in order a) to define when in pregnancy resistance to the pressor effects of angiotensin II develops; b) to define the physiologic sequence of events leading to this resistance; and c) to ascertain whether sensitivity to infused angiotensin II could be detected before the onset of clinical signs of pregnancy-induced hypertension.
(7) Two groups of primigravid women were assessed, those with uncomplicated pregnancies and those who developed pregnancy-induced hypertension.
(8) After three to four hours of treatment, hypan achieved greater cervical dilation among primigravid women and only modestly increased side effects, as compared with 16 dimethyl PGE2 suppositories or laminaria tents.
(9) Information about preconceptional sexual habits and contraceptive measures was obtained from 83 selected primigravid patients.
(10) Fifty-six primigravid women at 28-32 weeks gestation were studied prospectively to assess the roll over test (ROT) as a predictor of gestational hypertension in African women.
(11) In primigravid animals, antibodies in sera were routinely detected only by the indirect hemagglutination assay and were of low titer; weak antibody activity was detectable only by indirect hemagglutination in 1 of the 8 placental eluates assayed from these animals.
(12) Energy expenditure was measured during pregnancy in seven primigravid women at 12-15, 25-28, and 34-36 weeks and after the cessation of lactation.
(13) Gravidity acted as an effect modifier, as the employment effect was seen only in multigravidous pregnancies (RR = 1.38, 95% CI = 1.11, 1.72) and not primigravidous pregnancies (RR = 0.96).
(14) The effects of smoking during pregnancy on maternal body composition and the fetoplacental unit were investigated serially in well-matched groups of 29 normal, healthy primigravid smokers and 31 nonsmokers.
(15) Fifty primigravid fathers and mothers responded to an investigator-developed tool that measured social network characteristics and perceived social support during the third trimester of pregnancy.
(16) These results in a predominantly black, low-income population indicate a greater risk for congenital CMV infection in offspring of young, single, primigravid mothers.
(17) The clinical course and favorable fetal outcome in a primigravid woman with pemphigus vulgaris are reported.
(18) Prevalence of intramammary infection was determined for 382 primigravid heifers within 3 d postpartum on 11 Vermont dairy farms.
(19) Four hundred and sixty five healthy primigravidous women were enrolled using a randomised design.
(20) A total of 60 primigravid women due to undergo early pregnancy termination (6.5 to 10 weeks) were randomly selected for the intracervical application of 0.5 mg dinoprostone in the form of intracervical gel (Prepidil gel, Upjohn).