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  • Pregnancy

Pregnancy(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Pregnancy
Used for/see from:
  • Gestation
  • n: Pregnancies

IM for articles on normal pregnancy, NIM as check tag; in children or adolescents, see note under PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; surrogate pregnancy = SURROGATE MOTHERS; for "pregnancy" in non-placental organisms (fish, reptiles, monotremes for example): use OVIPARITY; OVOVIVIPARITY; or VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN

The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.

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