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Gestation
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Gestation The period of bearing a pregnancy from fertilization to delivery.
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Fertilization
The combining of the genetic material carried by sperm and egg to create an embryo. Normally occurs inside the fallopian tube (in vivo) but may also occur in a petri dish (in vitro).
Delivery
See drug delivery.
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Gestagen
A synthetic type of progesterone.
Gestalt therapy
A psychotherapeutic concept that stresses understanding mental processes as holistic entities (gestalts) rather than as discrete steps. Gestalt therapy often uses group therapy techniques to help patients gain this type of insight.
Gestation period
The period of development of the young from the time of conception until birth. For humans the full gestation period is normally 9 months.
Gestational age
The age of the fetus while in the uterus, counted from the first day of the last menstrual period.
Gestational diabetes
Form of diabetes that may develop during pregnancy in women who do not otherwise have diabetes.
Gestational diabetes mellitus
Diabetes (when blood sugar levels become too high) that develops duringpregnancy. Can be treated, and usually disappears after pregnancy.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
A type of diabetes mellitus that can occur when a woman is pregnant. In the second half of the pregnancy, the woman may have glucose (sugar) in the blood at a higher than normal level. However, when the pregnancy ends, the blood glucose levels return to normal in about 95 percent of all cases.
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Genitoerotic
Erotic feeling and activity specifically involving the genitals in imagery and/or practice.
Gerontalism
Impersonating an older person and being treated as one by a partner--one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias.
Gerontology
The science of aging and age-related phenomena.
Gerontophilia
A paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which the partner must be parental or grandparental in age. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which a younger person must impersonate a parent or grandparent is paraphilic. 2. The condition in which a young adult is responsive to and dependent on erotic/sexual activity with a much older partner in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.
Gestagen
A synthetic type of progesterone.
Gestation
Giving head
Vernacular term for performing oral sex.
Glucocorticoids
Generic name for hormones secreted by the adrenocortical glands that are not mineralocorticoids. The glucocorticoids are typified by cortisol or cortisone and are deficient in the syndrome of CVAH.
Golden shower
A vernacular term for urophilia.
Gonad
A sex gland, either an ovary or a testis.
Gonadectomy
Surgical removal of a gonad, either an ovary or a testis, on one side or both; castration.
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Fertilization
The combining of the genetic material carried by sperm and egg to create an embryo. Normally occurs inside the fallopian tube (in vivo) but may also occur in a petri dish (in vitro).
Delivery
See drug delivery.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Gestagen
A synthetic type of progesterone.
Gestalt therapy
A psychotherapeutic concept that stresses understanding mental processes as holistic entities (gestalts) rather than as discrete steps. Gestalt therapy often uses group therapy techniques to help patients gain this type of insight.
Gestation period
The period of development of the young from the time of conception until birth. For humans the full gestation period is normally 9 months.
Gestational age
The age of the fetus while in the uterus, counted from the first day of the last menstrual period.
Gestational diabetes
Form of diabetes that may develop during pregnancy in women who do not otherwise have diabetes.
Gestational diabetes mellitus
Diabetes (when blood sugar levels become too high) that develops duringpregnancy. Can be treated, and usually disappears after pregnancy.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
A type of diabetes mellitus that can occur when a woman is pregnant. In the second half of the pregnancy, the woman may have glucose (sugar) in the blood at a higher than normal level. However, when the pregnancy ends, the blood glucose levels return to normal in about 95 percent of all cases.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Genitoerotic
Erotic feeling and activity specifically involving the genitals in imagery and/or practice.
Gerontalism
Impersonating an older person and being treated as one by a partner--one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias.
Gerontology
The science of aging and age-related phenomena.
Gerontophilia
A paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which the partner must be parental or grandparental in age. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which a younger person must impersonate a parent or grandparent is paraphilic. 2. The condition in which a young adult is responsive to and dependent on erotic/sexual activity with a much older partner in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.
Gestagen
A synthetic type of progesterone.
Gestation
Giving head
Vernacular term for performing oral sex.
Glucocorticoids
Generic name for hormones secreted by the adrenocortical glands that are not mineralocorticoids. The glucocorticoids are typified by cortisol or cortisone and are deficient in the syndrome of CVAH.
Golden shower
A vernacular term for urophilia.
Gonad
A sex gland, either an ovary or a testis.
Gonadectomy
Surgical removal of a gonad, either an ovary or a testis, on one side or both; castration.
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