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GESTATION, med. jur. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or foetus in her uterus. By the common consent of mankind, the term of gestation is considered to be ten lunar months, or forty weeks, equal to nine calendar months and a week. This period has been adopted, because general observation, when it could be correctly made, has proved its correctness. Cyclop. of Pract. Med. vol. 4, p. 87, art. Succession of inheritance. But this may vary one, two, or three weeks. Co. Litt. 123 b, Harg. & Butler's, note 190*; Ryan's Med. Jurisp. 121; Coop. Med. Jur: 18; Civ. Code of Louis. art. 203-211; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 478. See Pregnancy. |
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Actors go through this gestation period where it's like giving birth after nine months, and then they get nothing but critics tearing them down. After a gestation period of a hundred thousand years our human ancestors began to think like we do. Bonn, the potent warning for any potentially prolonged gestation period on such projects, started life as a competition win that year at the height of the Cold War, only to be declared redundant with the destruction of the wall less than two years after its completion. |
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