THIRD TRIMESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does third trimester mean? 

• THIRD TRIMESTER (noun)
  The noun THIRD TRIMESTER has 1 sense:

1. time period extending from the 28th week of gestation until delivery

  Familiarity information: THIRD TRIMESTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRD TRIMESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time period extending from the 28th week of gestation until delivery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("third trimester" is a kind of...):

trimester (a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided)

 Context examples 

A non-invasive test usually done during the third trimester to check for fetal well being.

(Obstetric Non-Stress Test, NCI Thesaurus)

This variant is fatal, usually during the second or third trimester of pregnancy.

(Lethal Multiple Pterygium Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Women in the study had earlier responded to a questionnaire indicating whether they had taken a supplement containing folic acid in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)

This study compared the wellbeing of parents in the third trimester of pregnancy with that when their child was four months old.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

An autoimmune bullous dermatitis that develops during pregnancy, most often during the second and third trimesters.

(Pemphigoid Gestationis, NCI Thesaurus)

A physiological progestin that is produced during glucocorticoid and steroid hormone synthesis and is increased during the third trimester of pregnancy.

(Hydroxyprogesterone, NCI Thesaurus)