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prepregnancy en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + pregnancy.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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: