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n. The period of development in the uterus from conception until birth; pregnancy.

n. The conception and development of a plan or an idea in the mind.

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

n. The process of development of a plan or idea.

n. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

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

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

n. A bearing or carrying; exercise by being carried.

n. The act or condition of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

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

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

n. the conception and development of an idea or plan

"This blog posting does not only link both to Frank's article in the Philadelphia Inquirer and to the comments facility the paper has set up, but also lists/links to all the previous Books, Inq. postings leading up to the article, so the gestation is archived in one place for any interested reader to track."

biological time    mental synthesis    construction   

extra-uterine gestation    dorsal gestation    tubal gestation    mural gestation    mammary    oral gestation    abdominal gestation    ectopic gestation    uterine gestation   

pregnancy   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

gestational    pregnancy    probation    palpation    placenta    malformation    incubation    lactation    furlough