PREECLAMPSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preeclampsia mean? 

• PREECLAMPSIA (noun)
  The noun PREECLAMPSIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated

  Familiarity information: PREECLAMPSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREECLAMPSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

pre-eclampsia; preeclampsia

Hypernyms ("preeclampsia" is a kind of...):

toxaemia; toxaemia of pregnancy; toxemia; toxemia of pregnancy (an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine)

 Context examples 

Some pregnant women with high blood pressure develop preeclampsia.

(High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Chronic hypertension in association with preeclampsia.

(Chronic Maternal Hypertension with Superimposed Preeclampsia, NCI Thesaurus)

Stage 1 high blood pressure was associated with more than 2.5 times the risk for preeclampsia.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)

This gene plays a critical role in blood pressure maintenance and in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension and preeclampsia.

(AGT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

“When these women are exposed to PM2.5 during their entire pregnancy, the likelihood of developing preeclampsia increases by about 50%.”

(Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution, National Institutes of Health)

These include preeclampsia - raised blood pressure in the mother during pregnancy, gestational diabetes, stillbirth and fetal growth restriction.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)

Mutations in the gene may increase the risk of essential hypertension, renal failure and preeclampsia.

(AGT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs as a result of problems within the placenta, as can occur in preeclampsia, gestational diabetes or maternal smoking.

(Heart disease risk begins in the womb, University of Cambridge)

Another disorder involving inadequate responses to hypoxia is preeclampsia, a pathology of pregnancy thought to be caused by improper differentiation of placental trophoblast cells due to poorly controlled O2 tension or improper hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-mediated responses.

(Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Women who experience complications such as preterm births and preeclampsia during their first pregnancy are nearly twice more likely than women without complications to develop high blood pressure later in life — some as quickly as three years later.

(First-time pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of hypertension later in life, National Institutes of Health)