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Gravida
A pregnant woman. If this is the first pregnancy, a woman would be called a primagravida. If this were the second pregnancy, the woman would be referred to as a gravida 2. If it were the third pregnancy, she would be a gravida 3 and so on for subsequent pregnancies.
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Date Last Modified: 08/26/2003 14:50