literally, a pregnant woman; used with numerals to designate the number of timess a woman has become pregnant. (In her first pregnancy a woman is a gravida I; in her second, a gravida II, etc.)
The scientifically correct term for "pregnant woman". Suggested as an example of dehumanizing language for those who insist upon the terms "fetus" and "embryo" or even more dehumanizing concoctions of their own.