trimester
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- noun
- /traɪˈmɛstər/
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trimestre
- Bleeding during pregnancy is common especially during the first trimester and usually no cause for alarm.
- first trimester
- second trimester
- third trimester
They checked her urinary fluoride output each trimester, so three times.
- They checked her urinary fluoride output each trimester, so three times.
- The last trimester of pregnancy, you were being programmed.
- And they had some weird like vacuum they put on the stomach for the last trimester of the, of the pregnancy.
- For this evening primrose oil, my wife took that her entire third trimester.
- And I know that it's a time in pregnancy that not a lot of people talk about and can often be one of the hardest trimesters.
- So I'm actually through my first trimester, yes.
- This one says sex in the first trimester.
- So, so, so it's for us, it'll be early, first trimester.
- And then in the third trimester, they also saw that Emily was a little bit small.
- Talk to us about what we need to be thinking about differently once we enter that third trimester.
- So when a woman is pregnant, she produces more HCG, especially in the first trimester.
- And then during the third trimester, the vaginal microbiome changes in a way where it now starts to resemble the gut microbiome.
Examples
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OK so I'm very pregnant right now, still in the first trimester but the symptoms hit.
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So I'm actually through my first trimester, yes.
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And my first trimester was pretty like by the books.
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So still feels like first trimester but I am better.
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It's meant to stop after the first trimester.
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Just went so slowly and the second trimester was the complete opposite.
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We had a rough couple of weeks at the end of the first trimester, when she wanted to repaint the whole house.
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Between 28 weeks and 40 weeks, the third trimester, the baby triples its weight.
Academic text (2007) -
Our study confirmed a statistically significant difference between the two during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Academic text (2007) -
Many women report feeling tired during the first trimester of their pregnancy.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
trimester = semester (transparent) = tri + mester
Formed from the prefix 'tri-' (three) applied to the '-mester' element (as in 'semester'/'-mester' meaning a month/term); the 'three-month' meaning is directly inferable.
Etymology
Trimester comes from the Latin parts tri- 'three' and mensis 'month'. So it literally means 'three months', which is why doctors use trimesters to talk about the stages of pregnancy.