gestational age

1. 1.

   the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization

   Synonymsfetal agefertilization age

   Broaderage

Questions about gestational age

What does gestational age mean?

gestational age means "the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization".

What is another word for gestational age?

Close synonyms include fetal age, fertilization age. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gestational age a common word?

gestational age is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.