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Definition of False pregnancy
1. Noun. Physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant.
Generic synonyms: Physical Condition, Physiological Condition, Physiological State
Medical Definition of False pregnancy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of False Pregnancy
Literary usage of False pregnancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"IN the course of long obstetric experience a considerable number of cases of
false pregnancy have come within my observation. In some of these the patient ..."
2. The Science and art of obstetrics by Theophilus Parvin (1895)
"Nor can this self-deception and the phenomena of false pregnancy and labor be
accounted for by the action of the imagination, for similar phenomena have ..."
3. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"In the case of a false pregnancy or Mola, as it is called ... There is said to
be a false pregnancy called ..."
4. A Complete Treatise on Midwifery: Or, the Theory and Practice of Tokology by Alfred Velpeau, Charles Delucena Meigs, William Byrd Page (1852)
"OF false pregnancy. NUMBERLESS cases prove that various diseases may give rise to a
... false pregnancy always arises from some functional disturbance or ..."
5. Monthly Journal of Medical Science (1854)
"He thought it very important to distinguish ca^es of spurious pregnancy from
cases of false pregnancy. Real cases of the former disease were common in the ..."
6. The HomŒopathic treatment of the diseases of females and infants at the breast by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr (1856)
"FLESHY MOLES which must not be confounded with false pregnancy, where a germ is
... false pregnancy which has nothing in common with pregnancy but the name, ..."
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