pregnancy
pregnancy
Definition
preg·nancy (preg′nən sē)
noun pl. -·cies
the condition, quality, or period of being pregnant
pregnancy
Synonyms
pregnancy
n.
pregnancy
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- terminate: They can also be confronted at the same with an urgent decision around whether to consider terminating the pregnancy.
- prevent: Some are much more effective in preventing pregnancy than others.
- conceive: Women do not expect to conceive an unwanted pregnancy or to need an abortion.
- relate: The employer must not take account of any pregnancy related sickness prior to the end of maternity leave nor the leave itself.
- avoid: For women who want to avoid pregnancy, it is never safe to have sexual contact without using a reliable method of contraception.
- detect: We would suggest that further scans to detect pregnancy are then carried out from 16 days after insemination.
Adjective modifier
- teenage: For example trends related to teenage pregnancy are showing a dramatic decrease.
- ectopic: The rate of ectopic pregnancy is increased with ART, with associated risk to the woman.
- unplanned: Sexual health: teenage pregnancy Associated with unplanned pregnancy is teenage pregnancy.
- unwanted: Women do not expect to conceive an unwanted pregnancy or to need an abortion.
- unintended: Preventing and reducing the adverse effects of unintended teenage pregnancies.
- teen: A comprehensive approach to the issue of teenage pregnancy which resulted in a 25-30 % reduction in teen pregnancies on Merseyside.
Modifies a noun
- complication: Vitamin supplements may increase the risk of pregnancy complications instead of prevent them, research has suggested.
- termination: Another patient was worried about a note about asthma screening, others about records of mental disorders and pregnancy terminations.
- riddle: Jennifer Lopez is at the center of a pregnancy riddle.
- hormone: The second is that the ring of muscles that separates the esophagus from the stomach relax due to pregnancy hormones.
- testing: You can also buy home pregnancy testing kits from pharmacists.
- test: Diary - The First Month Sunday November 7th Did a pregnancy test today.
Noun used with modifier
pregnancy Quotes
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
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