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Definition of Molar pregnancy
1. Noun. An abnormality during pregnancy; chorionic villi around the fetus degenerate and form clusters of fluid-filled sacs; usually associated with the death of the fetus.
Medical Definition of Molar pregnancy
1. Pregnancy marked by a neoplasm within the uterus, whereby part or all of the chorionic villi are converted into a mass of clear vesicles. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Molar Pregnancy
Literary usage of Molar pregnancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1856)
"The treatment of molar pregnancy consists in emptying the uterus of its ...
If in a case of suspected molar pregnancy the life of the mother should be ..."
2. Diseases of the ovaries: Their Diagnosis and Treatment by Spencer Wells (1873)
"In molar pregnancy the uterus does not enlarge so regularly as in ordinary pregnancy.
The enlargement is usually more rapid, and the functional disorders ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1856)
"The after treatment of such cases is much the same as after ordinary abortion ;
but it must be said that the health is more broken after molar pregnancy ..."
4. The Principles and practice of midwifery with some of the diseases of women by Alexander Milne (1884)
"molar pregnancy. 168. molar pregnancy—False Moles—Genuine or True Moles.— Various
substances, organized and non-organized, are discharged from the uterus ..."
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