gestation period

The time between fertilization and birth.

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gestation period - the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)

gestation

biological time - the time of various biological processes

full term, term - the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"

midterm - the middle of the gestation period

trimester - a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided

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To better understand the unique relationship between maternal Alzheimer's disease and risk in her offspring, Dr Pratico and his colleagues looked at maternal fat intake specifically during the gestation period in mice engineered to develop Alzheimer's disease.

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To better understand the unique relationship between maternal Alzheimer's disease and risk in her offspring, Dr Pratico and colleagues looked at maternal fat intake specifically during the gestation period in mice engineered to develop Alzheimer's disease.

High-fat diet guards fetus from Alzheimer's disease: Study

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The infant weighed around 2.5kg and was born on April 1 after a gestation period of eight-and-ahalf months.

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""Due to the slow nature of work and lack of skilled labour, the conservation work could not be completed within the approved gestation period and the scheme was revised with its gestation period being enhanced up to June 2020," sources said.They said that the project remained less funded during its gestation period as the releases are lesser than the planned allocation as per revised PC-I.

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LAHORE -- The Punjab government and its development partner, the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP), have signed an agreement to extend the gestation period of the Southern Punjab Poverty Alleviation Project (SPPAP) for three years up to March 31, 2021.

South Punjab poverty alleviation plan extended

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Infrastructure funding, he stated, has a long gestation period within which projects are conceived and concluded before they will begin to generate income.

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Scientists believed Thi, who was already a great-grandmother and matriarch of the herd, had lost the calf as the usual gestation period for an Asian elephant is around 22 months.

Elephant who shocked experts by being born three months late named

Anjan, a rare Asian elephant calf, was born at 25 months Scientists believed the elephant's mother Thi Hi Way, who was already a great-grandmother and matriarch of the herd, had lost the calf as the usual gestation period for an Asian elephant is around 22 months.

RARE ELEPHANT BORN THREE MONTHS LATE