Increase in the pace of the growth of the human fetus towards the end of pregnancy] |
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Authors: | A M Guihard-Costa |
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Institution: | U.R.A. n 49 du C.N.R.S. Collège de France et Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Paris. |
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Abstract: | Growth velocity curves of 19 biometrical parameters were established from 490 normal fetuses or neonates, who died in the perinatal period, and from 4,507 ultrasound examinations. There was a velocity fall for numerous parameters during the third trimester of gestation, but growth rate started up again after 38 weeks for some of them (femur length, biparietal diameter, crown-rump length, head circumference ...). No acceleration was found for body weight and crown-heel length by the end of gestation. |
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