Concept information
Preferred term
Pregnancy
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Gravidity
- Labor, Obstetric
- Maternal-Fetal Exchange
- Parity
- Parturition
- Placentation
- Pregnancy, Animal
- Pregnancy, High-Risk
- Pregnancy in Adolescence
- Pregnancy Maintenance
- Pregnancy, Multiple
- Pregnancy Outcome
- Pregnancy, Unplanned
- Pregnancy, Unwanted
- Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
- Pseudopregnancy
Entry terms
- Gestation
Note
- 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
Scope note
- The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.
History note
- 1963
In other languages
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Finnish
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gestaatio
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graviditas
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graviditeetti
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graviditet
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havandeskap
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raskaudentila
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Swedish
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Havandeskap
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011247
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