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prepregnancy

prepregnancy adjective: before the onset of pregnancy.

Adjective

prepregnancy (not comparable)

  1. Before the onset of pregnancy.
    • 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.2007 February 13, Nicholas Bakalar, “Childbirth: Cutting Caffeine Not Found to Affect Birth Weight”, in New York Times

Origin of prepregnancy

From pre- + pregnancy.

Questions about prepregnancy

What does prepregnancy mean?
Prepregnancy means before the onset of pregnancy.
What part of speech is prepregnancy?
Prepregnancy is an adjective.

Words near prepregnancy in the dictionary

  1. preprandially
  2. preprandials
  3. preprayer
  4. prepredicative
  5. prepreg
  6. prepregnancy
  7. prepregnant
  8. prepregs
  9. prepremiere
  10. prepreparation
  11. preprepare

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