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Definition: Gestational |
GestationalAdjective1. Of or relating to gestation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Psychosis attributable to or occurring during pregnancy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Gestational |
| English words defined with "gestational": gestational age ♦ low-birth-weight baby, low-birth-weight infant ♦ term infant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gestational": Diabetes, Gestational ♦ Fetal Growth Retardation ♦ gestational psychosis, gestational reaction in newborn, gestational trophoblastic disease, gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, gestational trophoblastic tumor ♦ Infant, Small for Gestational Age, Infant, Very Low Birth Weight ♦ Meconium Aspiration ♦ Pregnancy in Diabetics. (references) |
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Health | Tests for gestational diabetes have two parts. (references) | |
This is a preventable complication of gestational diabetes. (references) | ||
Screening for gestational diabetes may similarly be affected. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gestational" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gestational" is used about 79 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 79 | 37,388 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gestational": Gestational Age ♦ gestational psychosis ♦ gestational reaction in newborn ♦ gestational trophoblastic disease ♦ gestational trophoblastic neoplasia ♦ gestational trophoblastic tumor. Additional references. | |
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Containing "gestational": small-for-gestational-age infant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "gestational"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | graviditetspsykose (gestational psychosis), svangerskabsreaktion (gestational reaction in newborn, pregnancy test), myocardiopati under graviditet (gestational myocardiopathy), epilepsi under graviditet (gestational epilepsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwangerschapspsychose (gestational psychosis), zwangerschapsleeftijd (gestational age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | psychose gravidique (gestational psychosis), psychose de gestation (gestational psychosis), myocardiopathie gravidique (gestational myocardiopathy), épilepsie gravidique (gestational epilepsy), âge gestationnel (gestational age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Graviditätspsychose (gestational psychosis), Gestationsalter (gestational age), Generationspsychose (gestational psychosis), Schwangerschaftsreaktion (gestational reaction in newborn, pregnancy test), Schwangerschaftspsychose (gestational psychosis), Schwangerschaftsmyokardiopathie (gestational myocardiopathy), Schwangerschaftsepilepsie (gestational epilepsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλικία κυήσεως (gestational age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | reazioni di gravidanza (gestational reaction in newborn), psicosi gravidica (gestational psychosis), età gestazionale (gestational age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estationalgay psicose da gravidez (gestational psychosis), miocardiopatia gravÃdica (gestational myocardiopathy), idade gestacional (gestational age), epilepsia da gravidez (gestational epilepsy). (various references) miocardiopatÃa gravÃdica (gestational myocardiopathy), epilepsia gestacional (gestational epilepsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "gestational": progestational. (additional references) | |
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"Gestational" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gestional. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: alginates, analogies, analogist, atonalist, gelations, gestation, legations, nostalgia, saltation, stational, tailgates, tangliest, tantalise. | |
-3 letters: agential, agitates, alations, alginate, antilogs, astatine, atlantes, elations, estating, gantlets, gasoline, gelatins, gelation, genitals, insolate, latigoes, legation, otalgias, otalgies, sagittal, sanitate, settling, slatting, slotting, solating, stagnate, stealing, tailgate, tangelos, tangiest, toasting, toenails, totaling, totalise. | |
-4 letters: aeolian, against, agitate, agitato. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: thanatologies. | |
+3 letters: paleomagnetist, progestational. | |
+4 letters: gelatinizations, investigational, paleomagnetists. | |
+5 letters: gastrointestinal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e s t a t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0073 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171858667867581806778 |
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