Dictionary Definition
gravid adj : in an advanced stage of pregnancy;
"was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with
child(p)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
/'gɹævɪd/Adjective
- Pregnant; now used
chiefly of animals, or metaphorically.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 568:
- The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
Extensive Definition
Gravida
In medicine, gravidity refers to the number of times a woman has been pregnant- A gravida is a pregnant woman.
- A nulligravida or gravida 0 is a woman who has never been pregnant.
- A primigravida or gravida 1 is a woman who is pregnant for the first time or has been pregnant one time.
- A multigravida or more specifically a gravida 2 (also secundigravida), gravida 3, and so on, is a woman who has been pregnant more than one time.
- An elderly primigravida is a woman in her first pregnancy, who is at least 35 years old.
The term gravida is generally coupled with
para
and abortus to indicate
more details of the woman's obstetric history.
Gravid
Gravid is a term used in entomology to describe a
mated female insect.
Gravid is a term used in biology to describe the
condition of a female live bearing fish (or snakes) when carrying
young internally.
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It is also the word for pregnant in the continental
scandinavian languages.
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
anticipating, big, big with child, big-laden,
breeding, carrying, carrying a fetus,
expectant, expecting, gestating, gone, great, heavy, heavy with child, knocked
up, parturient,
preggers, pregnant, superfetate, superimpregnated,
teeming, with
child