SECOND TRIMESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second trimester mean? 

• SECOND TRIMESTER (noun)
  The noun SECOND TRIMESTER has 1 sense:

1. time period extending from the 13th to the 27th week of gestation

  Familiarity information: SECOND TRIMESTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND TRIMESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time period extending from the 13th to the 27th week of gestation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("second trimester" is a kind of...):

trimester (a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided)

 Context examples 

Most women get a test to check for diabetes during their second trimester of pregnancy.

(Diabetes and Pregnancy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

These contribute in the second trimester.

(Miscarriage, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

One that is abnormally prone to dilate in the second trimester of pregnancy, resulting in premature expulsion of the fetus.

(Incompetent Cervix, NCI Thesaurus)

An increase in blood pressure between the first and second trimester also increased the risk of a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)

For roughly 8,900 women, researchers compared blood pressure readings in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy to blood pressure status in the remainder of pregnancy.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)

Elevated blood pressure in the first trimester of pregnancy, or an increase in blood pressure between the first and second trimesters, raises the chances of a high blood pressure disorder of pregnancy.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)

For example, even among women with normal blood pressure in the first trimester, an increase in systolic pressure (the top number) was associated with a 41% higher risk of any hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, compared to women with a decrease in systolic pressure between the first and second trimester.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)