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PREGNANCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
Synonyms:
gestation; maternity; pregnancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pregnancy" is a kind of...):
physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)
Meronyms (parts of "pregnancy"):
morning sickness (nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy)
childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)
quickening (the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus)
cleavage; segmentation ((embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum)
Domain member category:
endometrium ((pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition)
stretch mark (a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy))
amnio; amniocentesis ((pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities)
phlebothrombosis; venous thrombosis (thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood)
fetal movement; foetal movement (motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pregnancy"):
trouble (an unwanted pregnancy)
gravidation; gravidity; gravidness (technical terms for pregnancy)
gravida (the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in)
para; parity ((obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered)
eccyesis; ectopic gestation; ectopic pregnancy; extrauterine gestation; extrauterine pregnancy; metacyesis (pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus)
entopic pregnancy (pregnancy resulting from normal gestation in the uterus)
placenta previa (pregnancy in which the placenta is implanted in the lower part of the uterus (instead of the upper part); can cause bleeding late in pregnancy; delivery by cesarean section may be necessary)
Derivation:
pregnant (carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life)
Context examples:
A drug used to end early pregnancies.
(Mifeprex, NCI Dictionary)
The cause is not known, but they seem to develop during pregnancy or soon after birth.
(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
A hormone found in the blood and urine during pregnancy.
(beta-hCG, NCI Dictionary)
A measurement of the total number of instances in which there has been a termination of pregnancy happening before the fetus is able to sustain independent life.
(Number of Abortions, NCI Thesaurus)
A pregnancy that is normal for both the mother and the fetus.
(Normal Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)
Pregnancy results of female nonclinical subjects.
(Nonclinical Pregnancy Results Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The decision to end a pregnancy is very personal.
(Abortion, NIH)
A measurement of the total number of pregnancy events experienced by the female subject.
(Number of Pregnancies, NCI Thesaurus)
A branch of medicine that specializes in the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth and in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the female reproductive organs.
(Ob/gyn, NCI Dictionary)
A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to nonclinical pregnancy results.
(Nonclinical Pregnancy Results Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
