pregnancy
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- 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
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- 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
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Being pregnant and carrying a baby before birth
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The time a baby grows inside the mother's womb from the start to birth
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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
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A pregnancy when the fertilized egg grows outside the womb, usually in a fallopian tube
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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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A pregnancy where the fertilized egg grows in a Fallopian tube instead of the womb
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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 rare pregnancy when the fertilized egg grows in an ovary 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
- Archaic
An illness in pregnancy with high blood pressure, swelling, and protein in urine
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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.