gestation

As females grow larger to support reproduction and gestation, that potential benefit may become less important.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

It is used to end pregnancies through 10 weeks gestation in combination with the drug misoprostol, which stimulates contractions and softens the cervix, allowing tissue to expel.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

“So it has been a long gestation period,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

This change was made permanent in 2022, so women can take pills at home for gestation of up to nine weeks and six days.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

His will, it turned out, was that Emily give birth at home at twenty-six weeks’ gestation.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“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

For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2021

But we don’t know how those powers, or the rules of the “town” where Wanda and Vision are apparently trapped, affected the gestations of their children.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2021

Films marking the development over the years of a single young character usually employ different actors at different ages, as Maleficent does for the child and teen gestations of Angelina Jolie.

From Time ● Jul. 10, 2014

On the other hand, I know of three well-authenticated instances of immunity in a sweeping epidemic of persons whose mothers had suffered attacks during the gestations which respectively resulted in their births.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various