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Gestational age
The length of the pregnancy. It is counted by weeks from the first day of the mother's last menstrual cycle. If a baby's gestational age is 37 weeks, it has been 37 weeks from the first day of the mother's last period and 35 weeks since conception. At birth, an important part of the examination of the infant is the estimation of the gestational age.
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