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  • adjective pregnant for the first time
  • noun A female during her first pregnancy

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Examples

  • Janet Isinghoff was thirty-three years old, primigravid, with a family history of diabetes.

    Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

  • Janet Isinghoff was thirty-three years old, primigravid, with a family history of diabetes.

    Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

  • Janet Isinghoff was thirty-three years old, primigravid, with a family history of diabetes.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

  • The proportion of malaria-susceptible primigravid women did not change consistently over the time of the study.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gaoqian Feng et al. 2010

  • The percentage of primigravid women varied between 39.5% in 1997 and 54.0% in 1999; 48.8% of women delivering in 1997-2001 and 50.0% of women delivering from 2002 onwards were primigravidae.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gaoqian Feng et al. 2010

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