GESTA'TION,noun [Latin gestatio, from gero, to carry.] 1. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. 2. The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments. 3. The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which fevers have often been cured.
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