The operator now feels for and brings up to the wound the gravid womb, allowing it to bulge well through the abdominal wound, so as to keep back the bowels and prevent any escape of water into the abdomen.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Numbers of eggs were counted in gravid females; the largest eggs have diameters ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 mm.
"A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla"
William E. Duellman
To my thinking, at any rate, they make a gravid mistake who look for "realism" in these things.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue