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Definition of Pregnancies
1. pregnancy [n] - See also: pregnancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pregnancies
Literary usage of Pregnancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"Goodell (4) Operated upon 169 cases; knew of 7 pregnancies. Mund£ (17) Operated
upon 137 ... Jackson (18) Operated upon 118 cases; knew of 9 pregnancies. ..."
2. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"(Baseline: 56 percent of pregnancies in the previous 5 years were unintended,
either unwanted or earlier than desired, in 1988) Special Population Target ..."
3. A Theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery by Pierre Cazeaux (1857)
"OF ABNORMAL pregnancies. THE pregnant condition is liable to present ... We shall
describe both these varieties under the head of abnormal pregnancies. ..."
4. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"... of number of children is also longest in the three groups first mentioned,
ie, Auburn, the Penitentiary and the Workhouse. (g) Number of pregnancies ..."
5. A Treatise on the science and practice of midwifery by William Smoult Playfair (1893)
"Taking the average of a large number of cases collected bv authors in various
countries, we find that twin pregnancies occur about once in 87 labors ..."
6. Obstetrics; a Manual for Students and Practitioners by David James Evans (1900)
"While primary ovarian and abdominal pregnancies do occur, they are undoubtedly
extremely rare, and are difficult of absolute demonstration ; as a general ..."
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