Pregnancy
Pregnancy (or gestation) is the term which is used to refer to the time during which one or more offspring develop inside a woman’s uterus. It usually has a length of forty weeks from the last menstrual period, or thirty-eight weeks from the moment of conception. Pregnancy can occur by sexual intercourse or by assisted reproductive technology. The term which is used to refer to the developing offspring is “embryo” during the first nine weeks after conception, and fetus from that moment until birth. However, these temporal limits are not universally accepted.... ...
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