late gestation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflateandgestation
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late
adjective
adverb
uk/leɪt/us/leɪt/
(happening or being) near the end of a period ...
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gestation
noun[U]
uk/dʒesˈteɪ.ʃən/us/dʒesˈteɪ.ʃən/
biologyspecialized
(the period of) the development of a child or young animal while it is still inside its ...
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(Definition oflateandgestationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Prior growth rate determines the fetal growth response to acute maternal undernutrition in fetal sheep oflategestation.
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Periconceptual nutrition determines the fetal growth response to acute maternal undernutrition in fetal sheep oflategestation.
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Such screening examinations may be planned for early pregnancy,lategestation, or both combined.
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Is a normally functioning gastrointestinal tract necessary for normal growth inlategestation?
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Women who had been exposed to famine inlategestationproduced babies that were significantly lighter and shorter at birth.
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Temporal changes in fetal cardiovascular, behavioural, metabolic and endocrine responses to maternally administered dexamethasone in thelategestationfetal sheep.
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These receptors become sensitive to glucocorticoid-feedback inhibition duringlategestation.
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The resulting acidaemia and hypotension was more marked in thelategestationgroup.
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The role of uterine prostaglandins in the initiation and maintenace of labour about three to four-fold inlategestation, beginning approximately at week 35.
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If fetal growth inlategestationis largely regulated by fetal substrate supply, then fetal adaptation to alterations in substrate supply are critical to fetal survival.
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Nine mid-gestation and 10lategestationfetal lambs were exposed to 10-minutes of cord occlusion.
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However surgical methods, with evacuation of a fetus at alategestationmay require fragmentation, and be emotionally more difficult for both practitioners and pregnant women.
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Association of disproportionate growth of fetal rats inlategestationwith raised systolic blood pressure in later life.
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Gardner et al89 investigated ovine maternal undernutrition duringlategestation(from day 110 to term) and reported glucose intolerance and insulin resistance in subsequent young adults.
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Thyroxine requirements may increase inlategestationand return to pre-pregnancy levels in the majority of women on delivery.
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A study in mice showed that choline-deficient diets during thelategestationperiod impaired fetal brain development, including decreased cell proliferation and reduced visual-spatial and auditory memory.
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