| 单词 | gestation |
| 释义 | gestation (once / 9586 pages) n Gestation is the period of time when something is conceived and developed. The gestation period for human babies lasts nine months. Gestation comes from the Latin gestare, which means to bear, or give birth to. We can talk about the gestation of fetus before it's born, but we also use gestation to talk about ideas. If you've been vaguely thinking about starting a revolution for the last year, then that idea has been in gestation. WORD FAMILYgestation: gestational, gestations+/gestate: gestated, gestates, gestating, gestation USAGE EXAMPLESAfter this elephantine gestation period, with the UK as a leading advocate of the idea, a deal is now imminent. BBC(Dec 20, 2016) That’s roughly the gestation period of an elephant. Salon(Dec 15, 2016) The average gestation period for a giraffe is 15 months. Washington Times(Dec 06, 2016) 1n the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) Syn|Hyper gestation period biological time the time of various biological processes 2n the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus Syn|Hypo|Hyper maternity, pregnancy trouble an unwanted pregnancy gravidation, gravidity, gravidnesstechnical terms for pregnancy gravidathe number of the pregnancy that a woman is in para, parity(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered eccyesis, ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesispregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus entopic pregnancypregnancy resulting from normal gestation in the uterus placenta previapregnancy in which the placenta is implanted in the lower part of the uterus (instead of the upper part); can cause bleeding late in pregnancy; delivery by cesarean section may be necessary abdominal pregnancyectopic pregnancy in the abdominal cavity ovarian pregnancyectopic pregnancy in the ovary tubal pregnancyectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state the condition or state of the body or bodily functions 3n the conception and development of an idea or plan Hyper construction, mental synthesis the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
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