Gravida meaning.

• A. Gravida
• B. Absence of menses
• C. Total number of times a woman has been pregnant
• D. Number of >20 week births

Answer: (C)

Gravida is the total number of times a person has been pregnant, including the current pregnancy, regardless of the outcome. This term captures how many pregnancies a patient has experienced, not how many deliveries or births she has had. In practice, clinicians use Gravida together with other terms (like Para or the full GTPAL sequence) to describe obstetric history. For example, if a woman had one previous pregnancy and is now pregnant again, Gravida would be two. If she has never been pregnant, she would be nulligravida. This is why the correct choice states it as the total number of times a woman has been pregnant.