QUICKENING
\kwˈɪkənɪŋ], \kwˈɪkənɪŋ], \k_w_ˈɪ_k_ə_n_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of QUICKENING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
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the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus
By Princeton University
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the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
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the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
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The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
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The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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The period of gestation when the motion of the foetus first becomes perceptible. This usually occurs about the eighteenth week, and was at one time erroneously believed to mark the time at which the foetus becomes alive- Animatio foetus. It need scarcely be said, that it possesses the principle of life from the moment of the union of the materials furnished by the sexes as a fecundating copulation. When the motion is felt, the female is said to be 'quick with child.'
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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