trimester

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If your second trimester is supposed to be your energetic trimester, then I am doomed once the home stretch arrives in a couple weeks.

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  1. noun A period or term of three months.
  2. noun One of three terms into which an academic year is divided in some universities and colleges.

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  • But because every major birth defect occurs in the first trimester, the priorities for the embryo are very different then. —  Omni: May 1994
  • He Can Get it with a Scalpel to his Testicles (from Infertility Drama): After reaching the second trimester, the author discusses the concept of permanent birth control in the future after her mother-in-law suggests that they stop trying to have children after the birth. —  Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
  • By the third trimester, a perfectly fit woman not wearing anything less than a space suit should be easily spotted as pregnant. —  Blogger News Network
  • In the early second trimester, an ultrasound test may be able to show another potentially problematic sign, the lack of a normal nasal bone. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Pregnant women who develop listeriosis in their first trimester are at risk of miscarriage, while women in the later stages of pregnancy are at risk of delivering a stillborn or acutely ill infant. —  CBC | Top Stories News
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  1. French trimestre, from Latin trimēstris, trimēnstris, of three months : tri-, tri- + mēnsis, month; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. trimestre =Spanish Italian trimestre, from Latin trimestris, of three months, from tres (tri-), three, + mensis, month: see month. Cf. semester.
 

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