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prenatal development  

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  • Prenatal development can be divided into three stages: preimplantation, embryonic, and fetal. The preimplantation period, between fertilization and implantation of the conceptus in the uterine wall, takes an average of 7 days. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Prenatal Development]

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