gestation
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5.5
- noun
- /dʒɛˈsteɪʃən/
- Specialized
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gestación
- "I did some research and learned that the gestation period for dogs is about nine weeks long."
- weeks' gestation
- gestation period
- 28 weeks' gestation
Affects the way the neurons are connecting during gestation.
- Affects the way the neurons are connecting during gestation.
- Now, when a human baby comes out in nine months, after nine months of gestation, they're helpless.
- You know, and he talks about in in German, but he says it's, it's this sort of pregnancy or gestation and birthing.
- So there's the, the stuff that you have to invest, which for most females isn't just the egg, it's the gestation, it's the weaning.
- The empty follicle then converts to become a corpus lithium, which secrets progesterone, which promotes gestation.
- He pays a woman to be the carrier, the surrogate mother at at five months of gestation.
- Best we can reckon, and what the Maya themselves today continue to say is that it's the gestation period of human it's nine months.
- As a pro-life person, I can't limit my appreciation and commitment to life only as long as it's in the gestation period.
- You know, maybe you guys can get that third child gestation.
- So they're like, oh, well, I'll just, you know, I'll have a child in in my body, but just for a little bit, just with sex and not with, you know, gestation onward.
Examples
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Normal gestation period for the dog is approximately 63 days.
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So they've just reached the end of their gestation and out they come.
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And so a lot of changes happen in the brain in eight weeks of gestation and some of those changes will continue on through.
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'The gestation period for a hippo is about 24 months.
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The most rapid period of normal fetal growth is between 12 and 36 weeks gestation.
Academic text (2007) -
Now, when a human baby comes out in nine months, after nine months of gestation, they're helpless.
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On average, a baby born at 28 weeks gestation weighs about 1000 grams.
Academic text (2007) -
The patient was a 19-year-old primigravida at 8 weeks gestation who presented with fever since 2 weeks prior to admission.
Academic text (2007) -
Over the course of her fourteen-month gestation period, Bahati's behavior did not change markedly.
Academic text (1992) -
The gestation period for humans usually lasts around nine months, from the moment of conception until birth.
Synonyms
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1.3
The time when a person carries a growing baby before birth
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Being pregnant and carrying a baby before birth
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3.7
The time a baby grows inside its mother before birth
Compounds
- Specialized
A pregnancy in which the baby grows outside the womb, usually in a fallopian tube
- Specialized
A pregnancy when the developing baby grows outside the womb, usually in a fallopian tube
Surface Forms
Morphology
gestation = gestate (transparent) = gest + ation
Standard noun formation from the verb 'gestate' meaning 'to carry/develop', so the noun denotes the process of carrying/development.
Etymology
Gestation comes from a Latin root gest- that means 'to carry' or 'bear'. So gestation is the time of 'carrying' when a baby grows inside the womb.