单词 | to term |
释义 | > as lemmasto term b. The full length of a normal pregnancy; the completion of this period; the time at which it ends, or is due to end, in labour; = full term n. 1. Now frequently in at term, to term. See also Compounds 3.In humans the normal duration of pregnancy is considered to be between 37 and 42 weeks. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > time of timeOE term?a1540 bearing time1587 full term1607 feminonucleus1884 ?a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Buik King Alexander the Conquerour (1986–90) l. 18277 Scho was with barne, and till hir terme weill neir. 1590 C. Hooke Child-birth or Womans Lect. sig. Bv Comparing the estate of Ierusalem besieged by Zenacherib, and not able of it selfe to defend it selfe, to woman trauailing of Childe at the full ende of her tearme. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxx. xiv. 396 There be certaine little wormes found breeding in the common coich-grasse, called Gramen, which if a woman weare about her necke, serve very effectually, to cause her for to keep her infant within the wombe the ordinarie tearme. 1682 Eng. Midwife Enlarged 22 So do we see Women brought to bed six weeks and 2 months before, and sometimes as long after their ordinary term. 1752 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. iii. 126 The common term of pregnancy is limited to nine solar months, reckoning from the last discharge of the Catamenia. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 176 If the exclusion [of the fœtus] take place..during any part of the last three months before the completion of the natural term, [it is usually called] Premature Labour. 1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour II. 62 The Princess of Navarre, being near her term. 1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women ii. 20 The dangers attendant upon delivery of a child at or near term. 1955 Sci. News Let. 13 Aug. 110/1 The need for enough protein to help her carry her baby to term has been widely recognized. 1990 Brain 113 420 The patient..was born at term. 2004 Pop. Sci. Jan. 64/1 (caption) The project twice created cloned embryos [from a pet dog], but the pregnancies didn't go to term. < as lemmas |
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