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full-term

[fool-turm]

adjective

  1. of or noting the entire duration of normal pregnancy.

  2. serving the complete designated term of office.

    He was not a full-term president.



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According to NHS England, premature babies are three times more likely to go to hospital with RSV and are 10 times more likely to need intensive care compared with full-term babies.

From BBC

There are 400 families taking part in the study – 300 of them with preterm babies, the rest full-term births.

From BBC

I don’t think it’s going to be a full-term pregnancy with those babies.

The rest of the mothers did not have preeclampsia though 23 still experienced a preterm birth and a control group of 13 had full-term deliveries.

The woman, 38, who was in the full-term of her pregnancy, was driving a car which was hit by an unmarked police car on 17 October on Kidbrooke Park Road, Eltham.

From BBC

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