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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: FETAL AGE ESTIMATES (with apology to LM about LMP)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.192949.9558@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan19.054345.22273@watson.ibm.com> <nyikos.727467367@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1993Jan22.232424.25467@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:29:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.232424.25467@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >In <nyikos.727646212@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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- [Lots of deletions]
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- >>I wonder whether "gestational age" refers to time since implantation.
- >
- >My dictionary refers to time since conception, but I admit that I don't
- >know if this is the same definition the medical references use. (An
- >interesting question, but unrelated to the above, since LMP is what
- >was used in the statistics given, not gestational age.)
- >
- Gestational age is time since conception, not implanatation.
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