gestations
- plural of gestation.
Example Sentences
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“Potentially, those gestations that would have ended in fetal death in 2021 were born alive in 2022 and then died shortly after,” Ms. Gemmill said in an interview.
From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2023
A 2018 review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that abortion medication ended pregnancies 96.7 percent of the time in gestations of up to nine weeks.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022
For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2021
The researchers who do this work say it would be impossible to use this technology with babies younger than about 21 weeks—and that pushing to earlier gestations is not their goal.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2020
Increased skill in diagnosis would raise the number of children brought to baptism, but it would more than proportionately raise the whole number of ectopic gestations discovered.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin