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trimester

noun/trɪˈmɛstə/

B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

One of the three roughly equal three-month periods into which a pregnancy is divided.

Nausea usually eases once a woman moves into the second trimester.

Topic: Midwifery & obstetrics in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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More medicine words: Midwifery & obstetrics