(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).
Primipara
Definition:
(n.) A woman who bears a child for the first time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second stage of delivery in primiparas was 1 hour and 20 minutes and in multiparas 40 minutes.
(2) There was a relatively high frequency of EPH-gestoses among both groups, due to the fact that all were primiparae.
(3) Preeclampsia and hypertension were more common among primiparas than multiparas (P0.001).
(4) In primiparae and multiparae there was a steady rise in umbilical artery lactate levels, with duration of second stage of labour, P less than 0.025 and P = 0.023, respectively.
(5) This paper describes a prospective study of 50 primiparae and 50 multiparae, whose duration of cervical dilatation in the active phase has been investigated.
(6) This study was conducted to determine if a nursing intervention designed to teach primiparas about their infants' behaviours and abilities would ease their transition to the maternal role.
(7) A group of 23 mothers, 17 multiparae and six primiparae aged from 17 to 39 years, were included in a 6-month longitudinal study.
(8) Anemia was common among primipara (16%), gravida 2-6 (16%, and gravida 7 (38%).
(9) Breastfeeding outcomes of 121 primiparas enrolled in a larger study were examined to determine the impact of cesarean delivery on time of first breastfeeding.
(10) In 193 primiparas with spontaneous vaginal delivery, postpartum perineal pain and insufficiency symptoms and their duration were evaluated by means of a questionnaire, 15-24 months post partum.
(11) It comprised of 125 subjects with 93 primiparae and 32 multiparae.
(12) We analysed 98 consecutive instrumental rotational deliveries of babies weighing > 2,500 grams in primiparae.
(13) Breast-feeding, supplementary feeding and weaning practices as well as nutrition during the second year of life were studied in 210 black primiparas, who had cared for their own children through the first year, in a poor, one-crop (maize) rural area in Bophuthatswana.
(14) These age groups are being compared to a collective of primiparae, by whom the delivery took place at an age between 17 and 34 years (Group II).
(15) The cesarean section rate was separately analysed for primiparas, and multiparas with and without previous cesarean section.
(16) Fifty primiparas and 88 multiparas were assessed for pain when the cervix was dilated 2-4 cm, 5-7 cm, and 8-10 cm.
(17) In a study of immunological factors in colostrum, we detected an 18-year old primipara with selective IgA deficiency and with a history of 3 previous hospitalizations for bronchopneumonia.
(18) Multiparas were older and had shorter ritodrine initiation-delivery intervals, but these were the only significant differences when compared to primiparas.
(19) In a series of 26,209 patiens, the incidence of pre-eclampsia was 9.3%, being significantly higher in primiparae (14.1%) than multiparae (5.7%) (P less than 0.001).
(20) With a mean frequency 1.75% of elderly primiparae, the operation took place in 60% of the cases in the year 1984 and in creased up to 80.95% during 1987.