full termn.adj.

1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 226 The wife..hauing carried two Twins her full terme [Fr. porté à terme], the first liued a yeare: the second came into the world sixe weekes after his brother.

1612 tr. J. Guillemeau Child-birth v. 25 I haue seene a woman with child who for a Pleurisie was let bloud eleuen seuerall times, and yet stayed her full terme, and was well delivered.

1732 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 259 The Child came at full Term, but its Inquietudes for some Months before the Birth, made the Mother apprehend he was not well.

1828 Lancet 10 May 162/2 When labour occurs before the full term of nine months, not infrequently the children lie preternaturally.

1852 Lancet 2 Oct. 299/2 The proportion of mal-presentations is increased in cases in which labour comes on at the full term.

1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. iv. 103 Cases occasionally arise wherein it is necessary—as in the case of a woman with a deformed pelvis, or who may be otherwise incapable of being delivered of a child at full term—to produce abortion in order to save the mother's life.

1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. xxv. 349 The midwives think it unlikely that I'll be able to carry a child again to full term.

1998 New Scientist 10 Jan. 25/2 Crucially, these cyclopean fetuses outstayed their welcome in the womb by up to 100 days—150 days is full term for a sheep.

2006 Mother & Baby Aug. 16/1 The girls are so big already, I don't think the doctors will let me go to full term.

a1625 H. Finch Law (1627) iv. i. 237 The full Terme shall begin the Friday after Corpus Christi day.

1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State of Univ. Oxf. I. 74 Austin disputations in use every Wednesday and Saturday in full Term, from one a Clock to three in the Afternoon, under a Master of the Schools bearing the Office of a Moderator.

1783 G. Crompton Pract. Common-placed (ed. 2) I. 2 (note) In the Court of Exchequer this term begins eight days before the full term in the other courts.

1832 Legal Observer 27 Oct. 410/1 The essoign day of Easter term was the 12th April; and the firstday in full term was the 15th.

1886 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 51 Full Term begins on the Sunday after the first Congregation, that is on the Sunday after the first day of Term.

1907 Eng. Rep. 80 740 A judgement given in the full term, shall have a relation to the first day of the term, quod nota.

1945 Times 4 May 2 Full term opened on April 29 with snow on the ground, an oddity which has not happened for 37 years.

2011 A. Wells Fen Freshers 167 I have the proofs now, and I will bring them down to you next Thursday, before Full Term starts.

1874 S. W. Williams Syllabic Dict. Chinese Lang. Introd. p. lxxix In some of these derivatives..the full term is better.

1923 C. B. Bridges & T. H. Morgan Third-chromosome Group Mutant Char. Drosophila Melanogaster i. 9 The use of the term ‘recombination’ in this technical sense is a shortening of the full term ‘recombination of linked characters’.

1957 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 2) 265/1 In the mid-nineteenth century..it was..used in the phrase ‘a pair of flats’... Farther back, the word is used only adjectivally, and the full term is Flat Scene.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Sept. 28/2 Many users of the initials [PMS] have half-forgotten the full term.

2015 P. A. Ireland & C. M. Wall Quality Med. Editing for Healthcare Documentation Specialist viii. 62/2 ECG and EKG are both acceptable abbreviations... Do not change to an abbreviation when the full term is dictated.

1844 New York Med. Jrnl. May 327 The placenta..appeared of the full term size.

1895 Med. & Surg. Reporter 72 253/1 Cases that probably have their origin in a catarrhal salpingitis or a subinvolution of the tube following a septic ‘getting up’ after a full term labor or a miscarriage.

1907 W. J. Maloney tr. P. Budin (title) The nursling: the feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female viii. 179 They smother in economic details the memory of their miscarriages, as if these had been full-term children.

1953 D. P. Cuthbertson & A. T. Phillipson in G. H. Bourne & G. W. Kidder Biochem. & Physiol. Nutrition II. xiv. 130 Most of the difficulties encountered in rearing germ-free rats are in feeding the newly delivered full-term ratlings by hand.

2006 Independent 27 Nov. 32/5 Humans are unique in producing offspring that cannot, within hours of full-term delivery,..flee from a predator or survive the climatic extremes.