Medical term for a pregnant woman, often used with a prefix indicating the number of pregnancies, such as primigravida for a first pregnancy or multigravida for multiple pregnancies.
In medicine, a pregnant woman. The term derives from gravid, meaning pregnant, while gravidity is the total number of normal and abnormal pregnancies a woman has had. A woman having her first pregnancy is a primigravida, while one who has had many pregnancies is a multigravida. Sometimes a Roman numeral follows the word to indicate a woman’s number of pregnancies. For example, gravida I refers to a woman in her first pregnancy.
The medical term for a pregnant woman is “gravida.” This term is frequently used with a prefix to signify the number of pregnancies a woman has experienced, including the current one. For instance, a “primigravida” is a woman who is pregnant for the first time.