"Gestational Age" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The age of the conceptus, beginning from the time of FERTILIZATION. In clinical obstetrics, the gestational age is often estimated as the time from the last day of the last MENSTRUATION which is about 2 weeks before OVULATION and fertilization.
| Descriptor ID |
D005865
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.345.500.325.235.968 G08.686.320
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| Concept/Terms |
Gestational Age- Gestational Age
- Age, Gestational
- Ages, Gestational
- Gestational Ages
- Maturity, Chronologic Fetal
- Chronologic Fetal Maturity
- Fetal Maturity, Chronologic
- Fetal Age
- Age, Fetal
- Ages, Fetal
- Fetal Ages
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Vaginal bacterial load in the second trimester is associated with early preterm birth recurrence: a nested case-control study. BJOG. 2021 12; 128(13):2061-2072.
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Quantitative methylation analysis of developmentally important genes in human pregnancy losses after ART and spontaneous conception. Mol Hum Reprod. 2010 Sep; 16(9):704-13.
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Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis, follow-up, and outcome of congenital varicella syndrome. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2006; 21(3):296-301.
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Fetal gender and sonographic assessment of crown-rump length: implications for multifetal pregnancy reduction. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2004 Sep; 24(4):399-401.
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