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[back to pregnancy
and conception]Medical Definitions and Etymology of
Pregnancy and Conception
The following definitions help to
illustrate the historical and current
medical definitions of these words. This
history is is not what Planned
Parenthood, the Guttmacher Institute,
and the Americal College of Gynocologist
and Obstetricians (ACOG) claim it is.
Etymology & Earlier Definitions
Etopic: [New Latin, from
Greek ektopos, away from a
place : ek-, away from,
out of; see ecto- + topos,
place
The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the
English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin
Company
Etopic: First Medical Usage:
The first
person to use "ectopic" in a medical
context was the English obstetrician
Robert Barnes (1817-1907) who applied it
to an extrauterine pregnancy: an ectopic
pregnancy (from
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3187)
1828 edition of the Webster’s
Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Conceive: v.t. [L., to take.] 1. To receive into the womb, and
breed; to begin the
formation of the embryo or
fetus of animal.
Conception: n.
[L., See Conceive.] 1.
The act of conceiving; the
first formation of the
embryo or fetus of an animal
Pregnancy:
n. 1.
The condition of being
pregnant; the state of being
with young.
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Pregnant,
a. [L. proegnans;
supposed to be
compounded of
proe, before,
and geno; Gr. to
beget.] 1. Being with
young, as a
female;
breeding;
teeming.
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1913 edition of the Webster’s Revised
Unabridged Dictionary
Conceive: v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Conceived (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever,
conceveir, F. concevoir, fr. L. oncipere
to take, to conceive; con- + capere to
seize or take. See Capable, and cf.
Conception.] 1. To receive into
the womb and begin to breed; to begin
the formation of the embryo of.
Conception, n. [F. conception,
L. conceptio, fr. concipere to conceive.
See Conceive.] 1. The act of
conceiving in the womb; the initiation
of an embryonic animal life.
Ectopic: a. (Med.)
Out of place; congenitally displaced;
as, an ectopic organ.
Pregnant: a. [L. praegnans,
-antis; prae before + genere, gignere,
to beget: cf. F. prégnant. See Gender,
2d Kin.] 1. Being with
young, as a female; having conceived;
great with young; breeding; teeming;
gravid; preparing to bring forth
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Pregnancy: n.
1. The condition of
being pregnant; the state of
being with young.
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Recent Definitions
Mosby’s Medical dictionary, 7th
Edition, (c) 2006
Conception (l, concipere, to take
together): 1. The beginning of
pregnancy, usually taken to be the
instant that a spermatozoon enters an
ovum and forms a viable zygote. 2. the
act or process of fertilization
(AUTHORS
NOTE: The term “usually” mean usually,
that is, commonly encountered or
observed, or regularly and customarily
used. )
Pregnancy: The gestational process,
comprising the growth and development
within a woman of a new individual from
conception through the embryonic and
fetal periods to birth.
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 28th
Edition, (c) 2006
(not to be confused with the
Online Dictionary at Stedmans.com)
Conception: 3. Fertilization of oocyte
by a sperm (Latin conception; see
concept)
Pregnancy: The state of the female
after conception and until the
termination of the gestation.
Webster's New World Medical
Dictionary, Second Edition, (c) 2003
Conception: The union of a sperm and
an egg to create the first cell of a new
organism. The term Conception has also
been used to imply implantation of the blastocyst, the formation of a viable
zygote, and the onset of pregnancy.
Pregnancy: The state of carrying a
developing embryo or fetus within the
female body.
Embryo: An organism in the early
stages of growth and differentiation
from fertilization to the beginning of
the third month in humans.
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