nulligravida

NULLIGRAVIDA, see parity.

A woman who has never been pregnant is referred to as nulligravida; a woman pregnant first time as primigravida, and at later pregnancies as multigravida (see pregnancy order).

Some of the unsealed documents, going back as far as 1971, reflect a finding that the device should not be offered to women who had not been pregnant or borne children - known as nulligravida or nulliparous women - because, in the early tests, women with small uteruses had more problems with the Copper-7.