preeclampsia

• pre-eclampsia, preëclampsia

From pre- +‎ eclampsia.

preeclampsia (usually uncountable, plural preeclampsias)

1. (pathology) A complication of pregnancy, affecting about 2-20% of women, depending on location, characterized by hypertension and damage to the linings of the blood vessels of the brain, liver, lungs and kidneys, which can lead to multiple organ failure, convulsions, coma and death. The only cure is delivery of the child.

• (dated) toxemia of pregnancy

• pre-eclampsia

preeclampsia f (plural preeclampsie)

1. (pathology) preeclampsia

• eclampsia

From pre- +‎ eclampsia.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeeˈklambsja/ [pɾe.eˈklãmb.sja]
• Rhymes: -ambsja
• Syllabification: pre‧e‧clamp‧sia

preeclampsia f (plural preeclampsias)

1. (pathology) preeclampsia

• “preeclampsia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014