Full-term

In relation to birth, a child who is born at the completion of gestation and so has had the normal amount of time to develop in the uterus, as opposed to a premature child, who is born without having the full nine months (medically, 40 weeks) to develop.


A complete pregnancy of forty weeks.


In obstetrics, an infant born between the beginning of the 38th and the end of the 41st week of gestation.


 


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