Medicine. = mole, n.4 Also figurative and in extended use. Now rare.
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释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy (9) molaa1398 Medicine. = mole, n.4 Also figurative and in extended use. Now rare. mole?c1425 An abnormal mass within the uterus, spec. one formed as a result of the death and degeneration of the fetus early in gestation or by the… maw mother?c1475 a molar pregnancy. mooncalf1565 A mole (mole, n.4), a false conception. Obsolete (rare after the 17th cent.). whetstone1580 transferred. (See quots.) cushion1600 transferred. A swelling simulating pregnancy: sometimes called Queen Mary's cushion, after Mary Tudor. (Perhaps sometimes an actual cushion or pad.)… false conception1601 Improperly so called. (Prefixed, like quasi- or pseudo-, to form names of things bearing a deceptive… an abnormal mass within the uterus; spec. one… pseudocyesis1859 False pregnancy; (also) †molar pregnancy (obsolete rare). pseudopregnancy1860 Medicine. A condition in which some of the symptoms or signs of pregnancy (such as amenorrhoea, nausea, and abdominal swelling) are present in a… |
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