pseudopregnancy
pseudopregnancy A state resembling pregnancy that may occur in some mammals (e.g. rabbits and rodents) in which many of the phenomena of pregnancy are present but there is no fetus developing in the uterus. It is caused by an extended dioestrus (see oestrous cycle) in the absence of fertilization.
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