Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of gravidating or making pregnant, or the state of being pregnant; pregnancy; impregnation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
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- noun
pregnancy
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- noun technical terms for pregnancy
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Examples
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We have already deviated from the natural state by seizing control of our fertility and eschewing a state of constant gravidity.
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The life of an embryo is more significant than that of a gamecock (which is much more important than a woman regardless of the gravidity of her uterus), so I guess if a women miscarries but survives a beating (or the perp involves a gamecock) there is a chance a felony charge will be pursued.
More on the bastard SC Committee that doesn’t care much about domestic violence victims. 2005
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They had built themselves a tiny hamlet, complete with women and livestock, most of both showing signs of gravidity.
Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000
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The lion and the lioness both live by murder, and until gravidity makes her slow for the chase the breeding female is by all accounts the more dangerous.
She Stands Accused 1935
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Maternal gravidity, season of enrollment and rainfall were considered as confounding factors.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gaoqian Feng et al. 2010
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Changes in prevalence of parasitemia, anemia and LBW due to time, rainfall, gravidity and season doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0012012.t002
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gaoqian Feng et al. 2010
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In this round older age, lower gravidity, remarriage, duration of marriage, sexual activity before marriage, long interval between last birth and pregnancy and child death were all associated with infection.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Yusufu Kumogola 2010
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Rational Review 2009
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(49.6%), 4088 were multigravidae (50.3%) and gravidity was not recorded for 12 women (0.1%).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gaoqian Feng et al. 2010
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0. 54-1.06; P for trend Full-term pregnancy and early age at first full-term pregnancy account for most of the observed reduction in B-cell NHL risk associated with gravidity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Prescott et al. 2009
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