antenatal care Medical surveillance and review performed during pregnancy for the early detection of possible complications of pregnancy, especially pre-eclamptic toxaemia (see PRE-ECLAMPSIA) and uterine and fetal abnormalities.
The closest phrase listed in the dictionary is âbeauty contestâ which is defined as: an assemblage of girls or women at which judges select the most beautiful âcalled also beauty pageant. This definition barely grazes the surface. b: an ostentatious display.
Nicole Hunter, a former child beauty contestant and writer of âEffects of Beauty Pageants,â wrote about how she doesnât know how to feel attractive without make up on. Beauty pageants teach children worth of a person is almost solely based on appearance. Beauty pageants not only have physical consequences for these women and girls, but they also objectify women in a way that is straight out of the 1950s. Pageants are everywhere in society, from small towns to movies to colleges.