Pregnancy is defined as the state of carrying a baby in your uterus.
(noun)An example of pregnancy is carrying a child that you give birth to after nine months.
See pregnancy in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. pregnancies
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noun pl. preg·nan·cies
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Pregnancy
See also abortion; birth; children; mother; parents; sex.
cyesiology
Obsolete, the part of medical science that studies pregnancy.
Medicine. the condition of pregnancy.
a pregnancy that takes place outside the uterus.
embryography
the scientific description of the fetus. —embryographic, adj.
the branch of medicine that studies fetuses. —fetologist, foetologist, n.
the state or condition of pregnancy. —gravidness, n. —gravid, adj.
the medical specialty that deals with pregnancy and childbirth. —obstetrician, n. —obstetric, obstetrical, adj.
the state, condition, or quality of being with child. —pregnant, adj.
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