Wondrous Words Wednesday
April 11, 2018
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!
This word is from SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult.
1. gravida – “His mother — my patient — was a thirty-year-old gravida 1 para 1 who had received prenatal care including an ultrasound, but the baby had been positioned in a way that the facial deformity hadn’t been visible.”
A gravida is a pregnant woman.
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I haven’t posted a word for a while, but came across one this week I had to look up.
That would be nope. Didn’t know it.
I knew it! But that is cos gravid means pregnant here
I read this book but I missed that word.
No idea.
I LOVED this book, and luckily, because of my PT background, my physician husband, and my experience delivering four babies, I knew this term. How did you like the book?
Definitely a new word on me, but then, aren’t all medical terms really obscure and designed to confuse the lay person!
I have never read a Jodi Picoult book, they have simply not appealed to me somehow, although several of my friends and fellow bloggers, tell me I don’t know what I am missing – Maybe one day?
Thanks for sharing and hosting WWW 🙂
Yvonne
That’s a new one for me!
I would not have guessed that word although the Italian word for pregnancy is gravidanza so this must be a Latin-based word.
I didn’t know what the word meant.
I never heard of this word for a pregnant woman before!
I was tickled to hear the term “elderly primigravida,” which is what several of my friends were (first-time pregnancy when the woman is over the age of 35) on an episode of the show Call the Midwife.
Somehow (like “Fiction-Books”) I ‘ve never read anything by Jodi Picoult. Reviews just don’t get to me on her stuff. I only knew the word “gravid” as a term for lab animals.
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