GESTATION
\d͡ʒɛstˈe͡ɪʃən], \dʒɛstˈeɪʃən], \dʒ_ɛ_s_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of GESTATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
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The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
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Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
By Oddity Software
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The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
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The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
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Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
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The act of carrying young in the womb; pregnancy; exercise by being borne, as on horseback or in a carriage.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The time during which a female who has conceived carries the embryo in her uterus. See Pregnancy. Gestation, likewise, signifies the bearing or carrying of an individual; a kind of exercise easier than that in which he moves by virtue of his own powers. Thus, we speak of gestation an horseback, in a carriage, .
By Robley Dunglison
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Syn.: fetation.
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A carrying; that form of passive exercise in which the person is carried, as on horseback, in a vehicle, etc.
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The action or process of carrying young; the condition of being carried in the womb during the period between conception and birth.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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