Prepregnancy

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Before the onset of pregnancy. not-comparable

    "After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group."

Example

More examples

"After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group."

Etymology

From pre- + pregnancy.

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