"Gestational Age" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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The age of the conceptus, beginning from the time of FERTILIZATION. In clinical obstetrics, the gestational age is often estimated as the time from the last day of the last MENSTRUATION which is about 2 weeks before OVULATION and fertilization.
| Descriptor ID |
D005865
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.700.320.500.325.235.968 G08.686.320
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| Concept/Terms |
Gestational Age- Gestational Age
- Age, Gestational
- Ages, Gestational
- Gestational Ages
- Maturity, Chronologic Fetal
- Fetal Age
- Age, Fetal
- Ages, Fetal
- Fetal Ages
- Chronologic Fetal Maturity
- Fetal Maturity, Chronologic
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2017 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2020 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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