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FETAL AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fetal age mean?
• FETAL AGE (noun)
The noun FETAL AGE has 1 sense:
1. the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
Familiarity information: FETAL AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fertilization age; fetal age; gestational age
Hypernyms ("fetal age" is a kind of...):
age (how long something has existed)
Context examples
A decrease in the fetal heart beat rate below 110 per minute or below the normal baseline value expected for the particular fetal age for a period of more than 10 minutes.
(Persistent Fetal Bradycardia, NCI Thesaurus)
A standard determination of fetal age; it is the number of weeks since the first day of the last menstrual period of the mother to the date of interest.
(Gestational Weeks Assessment, NCI Thesaurus)
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