pregnancy
- noun
- /ˈprɛɡnənsi/
- Drug treatment should be avoided whenever possible during pregnancy, especially during the first trimester and prior to delivery.
- pregnancy complications
- pregnancy outcomes
- high-risk pregnancies
Women who train in pregnancy tend to have easier births.
- Women who train in pregnancy tend to have easier births.
- I later on, later in my pregnancy, I did talk to one attorney.
- The last trimester of pregnancy, you were being programmed.
- So women that deal with things like preeclampsia during pregnancy, gestational diabetes.
- So now I'm thinking, is this like a pregnancy symptom?
- And I still got sick seven months into my pregnancy, still with all of that.
- And they are pregnancies that have gone awry.
- And so, you know, pregnancy rates were quite high.
- It makes her pregnancy a high risk pregnancy.
- And Christina, throughout my pregnancy, kept text messaging me.
- But then I find out, you know, with pregnancy that he'd.
- We know about Dewey Dale's pregnancy of wedlock first, right?
Examples
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We learn about pregnancy, we learn about puberty.
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Women who train in pregnancy tend to have easier births.
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Do you remember what pregnancy and that journey look like?
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And I still got sick seven months into my pregnancy, still with all of that.
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I would like a pregnancy test, please.
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Pregnancy will do that to a woman.
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And this is Minnie's first pregnancy.
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Inactivated vaccines can generally be given safely in pregnancy, provided there is a clear disease risk.
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Good food and water hygiene are essential, as the consequences of diarrhoea in pregnancy can be severe.
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Women who are experiencing a healthy pregnancy should attend regular check-ups with their doctor.
Synonyms
Being pregnant and carrying a baby before birth
The time a baby grows inside the mother's womb from the start to birth
The time a baby grows inside its mother before birth
The state of being pregnant and carrying a baby or babies
The time when a woman is carrying a baby before birth
Compounds
- Specialized
A pregnancy when the fertilized egg grows outside the womb, usually in a fallopian tube
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A pregnancy where the fertilized egg grows in a Fallopian tube instead of the womb
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A condition when a woman shows signs like missed periods and feeling sick but no baby inside
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Tissue in the womb during early pregnancy that forms a mass of small sacs and causes loss of the baby
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A rare pregnancy in which the baby grows in the abdomen instead of the womb
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A pregnancy when the baby starts to grow outside the womb, usually in a tube that leads from the womb
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A rare pregnancy when the fertilized egg grows in an ovary instead of the womb
- Archaic
An illness in pregnancy with high blood pressure, swelling, and protein in urine
How Pregnant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pregnancy comes from pregnant, which itself comes from Latin parts pre- ('before') and gignere ('to give birth'). So, pregnancy means the time 'before birth', which is why it refers to carrying a baby until it is born.