gestation
21gestation — UK [dʒeˈsteɪʃ(ə)n] / US [dʒəˈsteɪʃ(ə)n] noun [uncountable] 1) biology the time during which a human or animal baby develops inside its mother, or the process by which this happens gestation period (= the time gestation takes): Human infants have… …
22Gestation — Period of time from conception to birth. * * * SYN: pregnancy. [L. gestatio, from gesto, pp. gestatus, to bear] * * * ges·ta·tion je stā shən n 1) the carrying of young in the uterus from conception to delivery: PREGNANCY 2) GESTATION PERIOD… …
23gestation — n. period of gestation * * * [dʒe steɪʃ(ə)n] period of gestation …
24gestation — noun 1) a gestation of thirty days Syn: pregnancy, incubation; development, maturation 2) the law underwent a period of gestation Syn: development, evolution, formation, emergence, origination …
25gestation — noun Etymology: Latin gestation , gestatio, from gestare to bear, frequentative of gerere to bear Date: 1615 1. the carrying of young in the uterus ; pregnancy 2. conception and development especially in the mind • gestational adjective …
26Gestation — Schwangere Frau Anatomisches Modell der Schwangerschaft im neunten Monat Die Schwangerschaft (medizinisch Gestation oder Gravidität, von lateinisch gravitas, „Schwere“) be …
27gestation — noun a) The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mothers body until it is born. It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the… …
28Gestation — Ges|ta|ti|on, die; , en [lat. gestatio = das Tragen, zu: gestare = tragen, Intensivbildung zu: gerere, ↑ Geste] (Med.): Schwangerschaft (in ihrem physiologischen Verlauf). * * * Gestation [lateinisch »das Tragen«] die, / en, die Schwangerschaft …
29gestation — noun Gestation is used before these nouns: ↑period …
30gestation — [16] Etymologically, gestation is the period during which unborn young is ‘carried’ inside the womb. Indeed, to begin with the word meant simply ‘carrying’ in English (‘Gestacion, that is to be carried of another thing, without any travail of the …
