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gestation

[je-stey-shuhn] / dʒɛˈsteɪ ʃən /


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Gestation crates didn’t become commonplace until they were added to new buildings in the 1980s.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

Gestation is considered a full-time job; the days at Golden Oaks have the same intense orderliness of a factory floor.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2019

Gestation for a litter is roughly 31 days.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015

Gestation and fetal growth can be increased according to metabolic parameters.

From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012

If the fecundated ovum is blocked or held in the Fallopian tube, the embryo grows where the ovum stops, and we have a case of Ectopic Gestation.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin




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