gestationn.

/dʒɛˈsteɪʃən/

Forms: Also 1500s -acion.

Etymology: < Latin gestātiōn-em (noun of action < gestāre to carry) found especially in sense 1. Compare French gestation (Cotgrave).

The action of bearing or carrying.

1. A carrying or being carried, e.g., on horseback or in a carriage, regarded as a kind of exercise. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > [noun] > fact of person being conveyed

gestation1541

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 49 b There is also another kynde of exercise, whiche is called Gestation..as..sytting in a chaire, whiche is caried on mens shulders with staves..or syttynge in a boate or barge, whiche is rowed, rydyng on a horse [etc.].

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. lxvii^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Gestacion, that is to be caried of an other thyng, without any trauaill of the bodie it self.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 214 He never went forth any iourney (were it but for exercise by way of Gestation), but [etc.].

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. E4^v Gestation, increaseth heat..& causeth sleep.

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 238 He..took his morning's circuit on horse-back at a foot's-pace; for his infirmity would not admit of any strong gestation.

1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 429 Moderate gestation, and a temperate course of diet, will be found to answer the purpose of promoting convalescence.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 251 Gestation, pure air, sea-bathing, and every other kind of tonic..are also of the utmost importance.

1871 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 5) II. li. 245 Gestation in a carriage or in a boat, has the same good effects [as equitation] but in a less degree.

1885 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon

†2. The practice of wearing (a ring). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > practice of wearing a ring

gestation1646

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 185 Affirming that the gestation of rings upon this hand and finger, might rather be used for their conveniency and preservation, then any cordiall relation.

3. The action or process of carrying young; the condition of being carried in the womb during the period between conception and birth.Applied by extension to processes somewhat similar, e.g. dorsal gestation, oral gestation, mammary gestation or pouch gestation.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun]

pregnation?a1425

gravidation1450

pregnancyc1487

conceytatea1500

greatnessa1500

tympany1580

childbearing1612

gestation1615

ingravidation1615

gravidity1651

pregnantness1727

utero-gestation1775

baby-making1827

situation1829

enceinteship1841

tecnogonia1860

infanticipation1934

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being in preparation > making or becoming mature

ripingeOE

concoction1555

hatching1555

ripening1561

maturation1605

incubation1614

gestation1615

coction1683

development1724

developing1744

ageing1853

maturing1897

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 336 You shall reconcile Hippocrates to himselfe, if you say, that the end of the tenth moneth is the absolute and longest limit of gestation.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B2^v The gestation is various also, the woolf goeth a month or forty daies, the bitch nine weeks.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. v. 33 The..comfort of her sister-in-law, during her gestation.

1786 Gilpin in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 340 Naturalists tell us, that the noblest animals are the longest in gestation.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 556 The words ‘born in due time afterwards’. Such words, in the case of a man's own children, mean the time of gestation.

1821 Sporting Mag. 9 4 The gestation and foaling, upon which so much has been already written.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 162 As to the period of gestation, most insects begin to lay their eggs soon after fecundation has taken place.

1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. i. 29 It has been objected that our domestic dogs cannot be descended from wolves or jackals, because their periods of gestation are different.

figurative.1691–1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World i. Pref. 1 Measuring the perfection of the birth by the presumed time of the gestation [of a literary work].1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. v. 120 How this Question of the Trial grew laboriously, through the weeks of gestation,..were superfluous to trace here.1851 R. R. Madden Shrines Old & New World II. 606 The work was conceived in prison, and the whole process of gestation was accomplished there.1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xiii. 229 He has a trying gestation of every speech.

Draft additions 1993

geˈstational adj. associated with gestation; gestative.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] > relating to

gestative1828

gestate1854

gestatory1889

gestational1896

antenatal1910

prenatal1914

progestational1923

progestogenic1948

1896 W. A. N. Dorland Man. Obstetr. iii. 406 Gestational paralysis may assume the form of a paraplegia, a hemiplegia, facial paralysis, or paralysis of the nerves of special sense.

1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 610/2 The subjects chosen for discussion are: oral antidiabetic agents, anabolic and gestational steroids, modern drugs used in psychiatry, and side-effects of drugs.

1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Mar. 797/2 The mean crude birth weight was 3325 g and mean gestational age 39.4 weeks.

Draft additions January 2018

gestational diabetes n. hyperglycaemia (elevated level of glucose in the blood) occurring in a pregnant woman, typically resolving after the birth.Gestational diabetes usually does not cause the symptoms commonly associated with diabetes mellitus, but may result in complications for the mother and baby, such pre-eclampsia, high birth-weight, and premature birth.

ΚΠ

1958 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 18 Jan. 246/2 Those [cases] with two-hour glucose levels exceeding 170 mg. per 100 cc..were termed gestational diabetes; 33 were recorded.

1994 Diabetes Forecast May 56/3 (advt.) Here's a guide that helps you learn what gestational diabetes is and how you can avoid potential problems during your pregnancy.

2002 Times 15 July (Good Birth Guide) 4 Between 2 per cent and 12 per cent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes, which disappears after the birth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	gestation
释义	gestationn. /dʒɛˈsteɪʃən/ Forms: Also 1500s -acion. Etymology: < Latin gestātiōn-em (noun of action < gestāre to carry) found especially in sense 1. Compare French gestation (Cotgrave). The action of bearing or carrying. 1. A carrying or being carried, e.g., on horseback or in a carriage, regarded as a kind of exercise. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > fact of person being conveyed gestation1541 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 49 b There is also another kynde of exercise, whiche is called Gestation..as..sytting in a chaire, whiche is caried on mens shulders with staves..or syttynge in a boate or barge, whiche is rowed, rydyng on a horse [etc.]. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. lxvii^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Gestacion, that is to be caried of an other thyng, without any trauaill of the bodie it self. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 214 He never went forth any iourney (were it but for exercise by way of Gestation), but [etc.]. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. E4^v Gestation, increaseth heat..& causeth sleep. 1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 238 He..took his morning's circuit on horse-back at a foot's-pace; for his infirmity would not admit of any strong gestation. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 429 Moderate gestation, and a temperate course of diet, will be found to answer the purpose of promoting convalescence. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 251 Gestation, pure air, sea-bathing, and every other kind of tonic..are also of the utmost importance. 1871 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 5) II. li. 245 Gestation in a carriage or in a boat, has the same good effects [as equitation] but in a less degree. 1885 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon †2. The practice of wearing (a ring). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > practice of wearing a ring gestation1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 185 Affirming that the gestation of rings upon this hand and finger, might rather be used for their conveniency and preservation, then any cordiall relation. View more context for this quotation 3. The action or process of carrying young; the condition of being carried in the womb during the period between conception and birth.Applied by extension to processes somewhat similar, e.g. dorsal gestation, oral gestation, mammary gestation or pouch gestation. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun] pregnation?a1425 gravidation1450 pregnancyc1487 conceytatea1500 greatnessa1500 tympany1580 childbearing1612 gestation1615 ingravidation1615 gravidity1651 pregnantness1727 utero-gestation1775 baby-making1827 situation1829 enceinteship1841 tecnogonia1860 infanticipation1934 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being in preparation > making or becoming mature ripingeOE concoction1555 hatching1555 ripening1561 maturation1605 incubation1614 gestation1615 coction1683 development1724 developing1744 ageing1853 maturing1897 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 336 You shall reconcile Hippocrates to himselfe, if you say, that the end of the tenth moneth is the absolute and longest limit of gestation. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B2^v The gestation is various also, the woolf goeth a month or forty daies, the bitch nine weeks. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. v. 33 The..comfort of her sister-in-law, during her gestation. 1786 Gilpin in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 340 Naturalists tell us, that the noblest animals are the longest in gestation. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 556 The words ‘born in due time afterwards’. Such words, in the case of a man's own children, mean the time of gestation. 1821 Sporting Mag. 9 4 The gestation and foaling, upon which so much has been already written. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 162 As to the period of gestation, most insects begin to lay their eggs soon after fecundation has taken place. 1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. i. 29 It has been objected that our domestic dogs cannot be descended from wolves or jackals, because their periods of gestation are different. figurative.1691–1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World i. Pref. 1 Measuring the perfection of the birth by the presumed time of the gestation [of a literary work].1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. v. 120 How this Question of the Trial grew laboriously, through the weeks of gestation,..were superfluous to trace here.1851 R. R. Madden Shrines Old & New World II. 606 The work was conceived in prison, and the whole process of gestation was accomplished there.1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xiii. 229 He has a trying gestation of every speech. Draft additions 1993 geˈstational adj. associated with gestation; gestative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] > relating to gestative1828 gestate1854 gestatory1889 gestational1896 antenatal1910 prenatal1914 progestational1923 progestogenic1948 1896 W. A. N. Dorland Man. Obstetr. iii. 406 Gestational paralysis may assume the form of a paraplegia, a hemiplegia, facial paralysis, or paralysis of the nerves of special sense. 1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 610/2 The subjects chosen for discussion are: oral antidiabetic agents, anabolic and gestational steroids, modern drugs used in psychiatry, and side-effects of drugs. 1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Mar. 797/2 The mean crude birth weight was 3325 g and mean gestational age 39.4 weeks. Draft additions January 2018 gestational diabetes n. hyperglycaemia (elevated level of glucose in the blood) occurring in a pregnant woman, typically resolving after the birth.Gestational diabetes usually does not cause the symptoms commonly associated with diabetes mellitus, but may result in complications for the mother and baby, such pre-eclampsia, high birth-weight, and premature birth. ΚΠ 1958 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 18 Jan. 246/2 Those [cases] with two-hour glucose levels exceeding 170 mg. per 100 cc..were termed gestational diabetes; 33 were recorded. 1994 Diabetes Forecast May 56/3 (advt.) Here's a guide that helps you learn what gestational diabetes is and how you can avoid potential problems during your pregnancy. 2002 Times 15 July (Good Birth Guide) 4 Between 2 per cent and 12 per cent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes, which disappears after the birth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1541
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