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pregnancy
The period of time between implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterus and the birth. It is also known as gestation.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Anatomy, physiology and embryology
Level of specialization Medium
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Variants
Synonym
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

embarazo
gestación
Examples
To ensure that the pregnancy was going on correctly, they performed an amniocentesis at week sixteen. 
Outcomes were measured based on the pregnancy rate, implantation rate, and live birth rate. 
Collocations
WITH ADJECTIVES
ongoing | successful | clinical || ectopic | multiple pregnancy
WITH NOUNS
pregnancy rate | outcome | test || complication | loss 
WITH VERBS
achieve | conceive | diagnose || carry | maintain pregnancy