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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gestation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
▪ To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
▪ But it was a long gestation, and a fierce debate still simmers about when and where the birth actually took place.
▪ Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period.
▪ Experience has shown that the local appropriation of this programme often requires a long process of gestation and steady, patient work.
▪ Because of the long gestation and lactation periods, the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years.
▪ During a long gestation period, there is a lot of talk and little action.
■ NOUN
period
▪ This is hardly surprising, since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes.
▪ It seems that the nine-month gestation period has a psychological as well as a physical reality in human life.
▪ Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter, after a gestation period of up to 10 months.
▪ To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
▪ As work continues to reduce the gestation period at which screening tests can be conducted, the practical problems will decrease.
▪ Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period.
▪ A single foal is born after a gestation period of a year.
▪ He'd even got the gestation period wrong, but given the rest of it this was a minor consideration.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The gestation of the biotechnology industry has been rather short.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was a long gestation, and a fierce debate still simmers about when and where the birth actually took place.
▪ Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter, after a gestation period of up to 10 months.
▪ Intrinsic factor and hydrogen-potassium ATPase activity were found in all specimens, including those of 13 and 15 weeks' gestation.
▪ Other cloned animals grow huge, and often sickly, during their gestation.
▪ Then, nine months of gestation later, an opportunity crops up out of the blue, or so it seems.
▪ To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
▪ Traditional design is a complex process of adaptation and assimilation in a perpetual act of gestation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gestation

Gestation \Ges*ta"tion\, n. [L. gestatio a bearing, carrying, fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. gestation. See Gest deed, Jest.]

  1. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]

  2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

  3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
    --Dunglison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gestation

1530s, "riding on horseback, etc., as a form of exercise," from Latin gestationem (nominative gestatio) "a carrying," noun of action from gestare "bear, carry, gestate," frequentative of gerere (past participle gestus) "to bear, carry, bring forth" (see gest). Meaning "action or process of carrying young in the womb" is from 1610s.

Wiktionary
gestation

n. 1 The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born. 2 The process of development of a plan or idea.

WordNet
gestation
  1. n. the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) [syn: gestation period]

  2. the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus [syn: pregnancy, maternity]

  3. the conception and development of an idea or plan

Wikipedia
Gestation

Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside female viviparous animals. It is typical for mammals, but also occurs for some non-mammals. Mammals during pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the same time ( multiple gestations).

The time interval of a gestation is called the gestation period. In human obstetrics, gestational age refers to the embryonic or fetal age plus two weeks. This is approximately the duration since the woman's last menstrual period (LMP) began.

Usage examples of "gestation".

Bouzal cites an extraordinary case of ectopic gestation in which there was natural expulsion of the fetus through abdominal walls, with subsequent intestinal strangulation.

Careful examination showed this to be a case of intramural twin pregnancy at the point of entrance of the tube and the uterus, while at the abdominal end of the same tube there was another ovum,--the whole being an example of triple unilateral ectopic gestation.

It contains data relative to 17 cases in which abdominal section has been successfully performed for advanced ectopic gestation with living children.

Cordier gives an instance in which he successfully removed a full-grown child, the result of an ectopic gestation which had ruptured intraligamentally and had been retained nearly two years.

I settled for a blanket from the X-ray room and, wrapped to the chin, sat on the padded chair in the office, put my feet up on the desk and read an article in a veterinary journal about oocyte transfers from infertile mares into other mares for gestation, and the possible repercussions in the thoroughbred stud book.

Mauriceau delivered a woman of a healthy child at full term after she had recovered from a severe attack of this disease during the fifth month of gestation.

The patient, who was five months advanced in gestation, recovered without aborting.

Atlee submits quite a remarkable case of congenital ventral gestation, the subject being a girl of six, who recovered after the discharge of the fetal mass from the abdomen.

Article 312 of the Civil Code of France accords a minimum of one hundred and eighty and a maximum of three hundred days for the gestation of a viable child.

Campbell quotes the case of a Polish woman, aged thirty-five, the mother of nine children, most of whom were stillborn, who conceived for the tenth time, the gestation being normal up to the lying-in period.

Mann quotes Munde in speaking of an instance of removal of elephantiasis of the vulva without interrupting pregnancy, and says that there are many cases of the removal of venereal warts without any interference with gestation.

It appeared that the Unknown was making an exhaustive survey of the human sexual mores, reproduction, gestation, birth processes and other sexological behavior.

Berthold speaks of a kid fourteen days old which was impregnated by an adult goat, and at the usual period of gestation bore a kid, which was mature but weak, to which it gave milk in abundance, and both the mother and kid grew up strong.

I believe: that the world is split in two, between those who are handed power at birth, at gestation, encoded with a seemingly random chromosome determinate that says yes for ever and ever, and those like Norah, like Danielle Westerman, like my mother, like my mother-in-law, like me, like all of us who fall into the uncoded female otherness in which the power to assert ourselves and claim our lives has been displaced by a compulsion to shut down our bodies and seal our mouths and be as nothing against the fireworks and streaking stars and blinding light of the Big Bang.

Anyway, Mario II's incomplete gestation and arachnoidal birth left the kid with some lifelong character-building physical challenges.