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multiple pregnancy
A pregnancy in which three or more foetuses or embryos are present simultaneously. It is also known as multifetal gestation.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Anatomy, physiology and embryology
Level of specialization Medium
Definition source Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Variants
Synonym
multifetal gestation
Formal
Hyponym
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

embarazo múltiple
gestación múltiple

Valenciano

embaràs múltiple
gestació múltiple
Examples
Data on multiple pregnancies was only reported by six of the studies and may be regarded as a source of reporting bias. 
Multiple pregnancies are described as a complication, but at the beginning, pregnancy rates were so low that with a multiple embryo [...].
Collocations
WITH VERBS
multiple pregnancy challenge | decrease
describe | reduce multiple pregnancy 
prevent multiple pregnancy