full term
Forty weeks gestation
Full term describes a pregnancy that has reached its complete duration—typically 39 to 40 weeks—when the baby is fully developed and ready for birth.
A full-term baby arrives neither premature nor overdue.
The phrase extends to completing any designated period: She served her full term as senator.
Often hyphenated when used as an adjective before a noun.
- gestation periodPregnancy's full length
- pregnancyCarrying developing offspring
- baby bumpPregnant woman's protruding stomach
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- labor and deliveryProcess of giving birth
nine months · maternity · birth · delivery · fetus · maturity · completion · wholeness · tenure · due date · birth plan · water breaking · viability · resolution · commitment · renewal · fetal · trimester
- pregnancy termsfirst trimester, second trimester, third trimester, nine months, preterm
- academic calendaracademic year, semester, trimester, quarter, session
- birthlive birth, stillbirth, premature birth, breech birth, multiple birth
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth
full termpremature
Occurring before expected
preterm · premature birth · preterm birth · preemie · early
full termcut short
End before completion
early termination · truncated · abbreviated · unfinished · incomplete
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