Definition of gestation in English:
gestation
noun dʒɛˈsteɪʃ(ə)ndʒɛˈsteɪʃ(ə)n
1The process or period of developing inside the womb between conception and birth.
- It has also been shown that heat stress in the middle to last third of gestation can reduce calf birthweight and subsequent milk production in the dam.
- While studies during gestation and at birth provided ambiguous results, almost all the studies done around conception gave strong support to the Trivers-Willard hypothesis.
- If we find that the woman is positive for toxo, and has been infected during gestation, then there is a risk for the foetus to be infected.
- The reproductive cycle in the adult female consists of all processes leading to conception, gestation, and birth of offspring.
- In particular, folic acid is essential for hematopoiesis and has been shown to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects during gestation.
- After fertilization, gestation ensues for 65-70 days.
- Placental pathology has the potential to shed light on these issues because of its ability to identify and quantitate distinct pathologic processes occurring throughout gestation.
- For many animals, an entire biobehavioral cascade - courting, conception and gestation - is timed to ensure spring births.
- This method allowed a physician to estimate fairly accurately the duration of gestation and, later on in the pregnancy, the size of the fetus.
- Females bear one egg once a month that, if fertilised leads to months of gestation then birth and lactation, all of which poses great physical demands and a significant amount of time.
- Stephen is presenting a theory of how language is related to physical gestation and birth.
- That made us think about pre-natal folate levels, and whether not having enough folate in early gestation could increase your risk not only of neural tube defects but of schizophrenia also.
- The earlier law banned practises such as implanting human embryos inside animals for gestation.
- The most damage occurs early in gestation but even those babies who are infected late in pregnancy are at risk if they're not treated.
- They are tales of conception and gestation, birth and rebirth.
- Not only are females responsible for bearing all costs of gestation but they must also protect the fetus from harm.
- Such interactions may act during gestation or shortly after birth in individuals born in the northern countries studied.
- The further along the gestation, the greater the presumed entitlement of the developing human being to our respect and empathy.
- Clinical history should include complications of pregnancy, duration of gestation, and birth weight.
pregnancy, development, incubation, maturation, ripeningrare gravidity, parturiency- 1.1 The development of something over a period of time.a thorough and painstaking work which was a long time in gestation
- The other aspect is that it was captured by the green movement during its gestation and development, and now it lacks balance.
- This is really the most radical aspect of the work, one that only came into being after a long gestation.
- Produced after a ten-year gestation, this work is by turns enthralling, witty, and harrowing.
- His paintings had a long gestation and longer execution during which the paint surface was built up by palette knife into a thick impasto.
- Unlike the colonial constitutions, the federal Constitution had a long gestation and took its authority from the people.
- He had been at the conception, gestation and birth of all of her designs.
- The first line was finally opened in 1873 after a long gestation that began in 1837.
- After such a long gestation, surely they cannot say the process has been rushed.
- Rostropovich spent two summers with the ailing Prokofiev and was astonished at the patience with which his suggestions were received during the rewriting of the concerto and the gestation of other works.
- Ten years is a lifetime for a project gestation.
- He seems, nevertheless, to have experienced some real difficulty with both the gestation and the planning of the novel.
- The sequence reeks of a pet-project so long in the gestation that the creators aren't prepared to ditch even one of the million ideas they came up with.
- During the gestation of the novel, he spent a week in Sariska with the author, who would dictate his text.
- We are able to concentrate exclusively on their evolution as a writer, on the gestation of their work, and on the freedom to revise and redesign our programs.
- Inevitably, the most rewarding sections are those which deal with the gestation of the well known operas.
- There is a lot of development work going on, but the gestation for projects is long, he notes.
- Chitty is keen to get cast members more involved, to get their perspectives on the gestation of a piece without having to sit them down and interview them.
- In March 2002, after a long gestation, the gallery was split into two.
- After a four-year gestation both English and French editions have been published.
- Of course, you could just as easily say the gestation of the play began when the prolific writer was only a teeny violin-toting tot.
development, origination, drafting, formation, evolution, emergence, coming into being, materializing
Derivatives
gestational
- At later gestational stages, misoprostol can be used either to induce labour or as part of a dilation and evacuation procedure.
- In a population based cohort we compared gestational length and preterm birth rates between naturally and medically conceived twins.
- The gestational time variable was always the first variable to enter the logistical regression models.
- In Norway, all births with a gestational age of 16 completed weeks or more must be registered with the medical birth registry of Norway.
- Three women who developed gestational diabetes were excluded, and so the records of 202 women were studied.
adjective
Origin
Mid 16th century (denoting an excursion on horseback, in a carriage, etc., considered as exercise): from Latin gestatio(n-), from gestare 'carry, carry in the womb', frequentative of gerere 'carry'.
Definition of gestation in US English:
gestation
nounjeˈstāSH(ə)ndʒɛˈsteɪʃ(ə)n
1The process of carrying or being carried in the womb between conception and birth.
- While studies during gestation and at birth provided ambiguous results, almost all the studies done around conception gave strong support to the Trivers-Willard hypothesis.
- Females bear one egg once a month that, if fertilised leads to months of gestation then birth and lactation, all of which poses great physical demands and a significant amount of time.
- The further along the gestation, the greater the presumed entitlement of the developing human being to our respect and empathy.
- After fertilization, gestation ensues for 65-70 days.
- Placental pathology has the potential to shed light on these issues because of its ability to identify and quantitate distinct pathologic processes occurring throughout gestation.
- This method allowed a physician to estimate fairly accurately the duration of gestation and, later on in the pregnancy, the size of the fetus.
- Clinical history should include complications of pregnancy, duration of gestation, and birth weight.
- It has also been shown that heat stress in the middle to last third of gestation can reduce calf birthweight and subsequent milk production in the dam.
- The earlier law banned practises such as implanting human embryos inside animals for gestation.
- Such interactions may act during gestation or shortly after birth in individuals born in the northern countries studied.
- The most damage occurs early in gestation but even those babies who are infected late in pregnancy are at risk if they're not treated.
- If we find that the woman is positive for toxo, and has been infected during gestation, then there is a risk for the foetus to be infected.
- For many animals, an entire biobehavioral cascade - courting, conception and gestation - is timed to ensure spring births.
- In particular, folic acid is essential for hematopoiesis and has been shown to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects during gestation.
- That made us think about pre-natal folate levels, and whether not having enough folate in early gestation could increase your risk not only of neural tube defects but of schizophrenia also.
- Stephen is presenting a theory of how language is related to physical gestation and birth.
- The reproductive cycle in the adult female consists of all processes leading to conception, gestation, and birth of offspring.
- They are tales of conception and gestation, birth and rebirth.
- Not only are females responsible for bearing all costs of gestation but they must also protect the fetus from harm.
pregnancy, development, incubation, maturation, ripening- 1.1 The development of something over a period of time.various ideas are in the process of gestation
- Of course, you could just as easily say the gestation of the play began when the prolific writer was only a teeny violin-toting tot.
- In March 2002, after a long gestation, the gallery was split into two.
- After a four-year gestation both English and French editions have been published.
- The first line was finally opened in 1873 after a long gestation that began in 1837.
- During the gestation of the novel, he spent a week in Sariska with the author, who would dictate his text.
- After such a long gestation, surely they cannot say the process has been rushed.
- Produced after a ten-year gestation, this work is by turns enthralling, witty, and harrowing.
- This is really the most radical aspect of the work, one that only came into being after a long gestation.
- Ten years is a lifetime for a project gestation.
- There is a lot of development work going on, but the gestation for projects is long, he notes.
- The other aspect is that it was captured by the green movement during its gestation and development, and now it lacks balance.
- We are able to concentrate exclusively on their evolution as a writer, on the gestation of their work, and on the freedom to revise and redesign our programs.
- Unlike the colonial constitutions, the federal Constitution had a long gestation and took its authority from the people.
- Chitty is keen to get cast members more involved, to get their perspectives on the gestation of a piece without having to sit them down and interview them.
- The sequence reeks of a pet-project so long in the gestation that the creators aren't prepared to ditch even one of the million ideas they came up with.
- Rostropovich spent two summers with the ailing Prokofiev and was astonished at the patience with which his suggestions were received during the rewriting of the concerto and the gestation of other works.
- He seems, nevertheless, to have experienced some real difficulty with both the gestation and the planning of the novel.
- Inevitably, the most rewarding sections are those which deal with the gestation of the well known operas.
- He had been at the conception, gestation and birth of all of her designs.
- His paintings had a long gestation and longer execution during which the paint surface was built up by palette knife into a thick impasto.
development, origination, drafting, formation, evolution, emergence, coming into being, materializing
Origin
Mid 16th century (denoting an excursion on horseback, in a carriage, etc., considered as exercise): from Latin gestatio(n-), from gestare ‘carry, carry in the womb’, frequentative of gerere ‘carry’.