Synonyms for gestation
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1. gestationnoun

   Synonyms:
   pregnancy

2. gestationnoun

   The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.

   Synonyms:
   pregnancy

3. gestationnoun

   The process of development of a plan or idea.

   Synonyms:
   pregnancy

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1. gestation, gestation periodnoun

   the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)

   Synonyms:
   pregnancy, maternity, gestation period

2. pregnancy, gestation, maternitynoun

   the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

   Synonyms:
   maternal quality, maternity, motherliness, motherhood, gestation period, pregnancy, maternalism

3. gestationnoun

   the conception and development of an idea or plan

   Synonyms:
   pregnancy, maternity, gestation period

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1. gestationnoun

   Synonyms:
   pregnancy

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1. List of paraphrases for "gestation":

   pregnancy

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1. Michael Kramer:

   There is no evidence in this study that there is anything at all normal about shorter gestation for black women for instance, quite the contrary, these findings of very large racial and ethnic disparities should cause us to redouble our efforts to understand not only the biological but also the behavioral and social determinants of racial differences in health.

2. Naganand Doraswamy:

   The gestation period is long by the time you see returns.

3. Jacques Martin Barzun:

   In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

4. Tammy Lewis:

   I was the smallest surviving baby in the state of Texas, at the time, i was born at 24 weeks. Normal gestation is 40 weeks.

5. Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski:

   Our test was able to predict 80.3 % of women who went on to have any preterm birth, at 15 to 20 weeks gestation.