0 used to refer to a disease or condition that affects pregnant women:
As many as 5% of pregnant women experience gestational diabetes.
1 relating to the development of a child or young animal while it is still inside its mother's body:
Rabbits have a 30-day gestational period.
It is defined as a deficit in weight of the foetus relative to that expected for gestational age.
Prenatally detected posterior urethral valves: is gestational age at detection a predictor of outcome?
They underwent a total of 76 intravascular transfusions at the mean gestational age of 28 weeks.
Infants whose gestational age is greater than 25 weeks must be provided with vigorous care, including resuscitation, even when they show no signs of life.
Gestational ages at diagnosis ranged from 18 to 32 weeks with a mean of 24 weeks.
The low risk group consisted of infants who were full term (38-41 weeks gestational age) and required no special care.
The median gestational age of fetal deaths was 21 weeks with a similar range of 12-27 weeks in both groups.
All infants were born at home: 106 males and 100 females (including one twin-birth), all except one had a gestational age >37 weeks.