naegele's rule

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   rule for calculating an expected delivery date; subtract three months from the first day of the last menstrual period and add seven days to that date

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Questions about naegele's rule

What does naegele's rule mean?

naegele's rule means "rule for calculating an expected delivery date; subtract three months from the first day of the last menstrual period and add seven days to that date".

Is naegele's rule a common word?

naegele's rule 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.