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Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Reproduction > Pregnancy > Pseudopregnancy

Preferred term

Pseudopregnancy  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Pseudocyesis

Note

  • do NOT check tag PREGNANCY

Scope note

  • An acyclic state that resembles PREGNANCY in that there is no ovarian cycle, ESTROUS CYCLE, or MENSTRUAL CYCLE. Unlike pregnancy, there is no EMBRYO IMPLANTATION. Pseudopregnancy can be experimentally induced to form DECIDUOMA in the UTERUS.

History note

  • was in Cat G only 1968-78, was in Cat F only 1963-67

In other languages

  • valeraskaus

    Finnish

  • näennäisraskaus
  • pseudocyesis
  • pseudograviditas
  • pseudograviditeetti
  • pseudosyeesi
  • Skengraviditet

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011555

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