gestation
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All the stillbirths occurred after 34 weeks gestation.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
As females grow larger to support reproduction and gestation, that potential benefit may become less important.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
“So it has been a long gestation period,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Mifepristone, which prevents pregnancy progression, and misoprostol, which empties the uterus, are approved to terminate a pregnancy up to 70 days of gestation in the United States.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
With Fermi’s chain-reacting pile still undergoing its difficult gestation, for all they knew this was the only plutonium that would be seen for months, or even years.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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“Potentially, those gestations that would have ended in fetal death in 2021 were born alive in 2022 and then died shortly after,” Ms. Gemmill said in an interview.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Only three participants self-managed abortions with gestations of 17 weeks and longer, and the study’s authors called for more research into medication abortion and later pregnancies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2021
But we don’t know how those powers, or the rules of the “town” where Wanda and Vision are apparently trapped, affected the gestations of their children.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2021
On the other hand, I know of three well-authenticated instances of immunity in a sweeping epidemic of persons whose mothers had suffered attacks during the gestations which respectively resulted in their births.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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