Definition of Full-term

1. Adjective. Gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy. "A healthy full-term baby"

Also: Mature
Antonyms: Premature

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-term

full-hearted
full-length
full-looking
full-made
full-motion video
full-of-the-moon
full-on
full-out
full-page
full-powered
full-scale
full-size
full-stop
full-strength
full-stretch
full-term (current term)
full-thickness burn
full-thickness flap
full-thickness graft
full-throated
full-time
full-time equivalent
full-timer
full-timers
full-wave rectifier
full-width
full English
full English breakfast
full English breakfasts
full adder

Literary usage of Full-term

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"There seems to be no essential change in the condition of the parts as late as a year after the operation. Chorio-epithelioma Developing after a full-term ..."

2. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"In the senate, for the full term, Booth, Dolly Varden, James T. Farley, Democrat, and James McM. Shafter, Straight Republican, received each thirteen votes; ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... Harvey W. Flinn, for the full term of his natural life, and upon his death I direct my executors to pay over one-half of the corpus of this trust fund ..."

4. Obstetrics: a text-book for the use of students and practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1904)
"It is not infallible, however, as Hartmann has shown that it was absent in 12 out of 102 full-term children which he examined. No one of these conditions ..."

5. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"Whether employe', if wrongfully dismissed, may recover salary for full term. English courts hold not. 3. Some American cases take the same view. 4. ..."

6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... Department would hereafter accept no troops for a less period than three years, unanimously offered their services to tho Governor for the full term. ..."

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