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UK
/tɹˈaɪmɛstɐ/
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[ US /tɹaɪˈmɛstɝ/ ]
[ US /tɹaɪˈmɛstɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided
- one of three divisions of an academic year
How To Use trimester In A Sentence
- But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
- A general rule of thumb is that the mother should gain 25 to 35 pounds, the weight of a full-term singleton pregnancy, by the end of the second trimester—and then gain an additional 15 to 25 pounds in the last trimester. Mothering Twins
- We do not agree, however, that the trimester approach is necessary to accomplish this objective.
- We were unhappy about my wife not being seen by any professional during the first trimester.
- Laura and Andrew had no problem becoming pregnant but Laura kept miscarrying in the first trimester. Kristen Houghton: Dealing With Infertility: Will a Child Make Me Happy?
- She's also entering the third trimester of pregnancy, and is at the stage where she tires easily, particularly as an older mother-to-be, so I took Georgia home with me for three days. Charlie Condou: The three of us
- In the second pregnancy trimester abnormal amniotic fetal cells can be detected.
- A study conducted by scientists at Yale University and published in 2008 reported that, compared to pregnant women who ate less than one serving of chocolate a week, those who consumed five or more servings of chocolate each week during their third trimester had a 40 percent lower risk of developing the dangerous high blood pressure condition known as preeclampsia. Origins
- Most are performed late in the second trimester, which ends at 27 weeks into pregnancy.
- She may even concede that hospitalisation is best, at least for the last trimester.