1 If gestational age is 34 weeks or greater, health care providers may recommend being induced for an early delivery.  If gestational age is less than 34 weeks, health care providers will continue monitoring until 34 weeks or beyond. Fetal well-being and the amount of amniotic fluid will be monitored during this time.
Free energy. Free energy. a thermodynamic term used to describe the energy that may be extracted from a system at constant temperature and pressure. In biological systems the most important relationship is: _G = RTln(keq), where keq is an equilibrium constant. The amount of energy available for reactions to occur. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 3 October 2005, at 21:16.This page has been accessed 37,945 times.
Gibbs free energy The difference between the enthalpy of a system and the product of its entropy and absolute temperature. endergonic reaction A chemical reaction in which the standard change in free energy is positive, and energy is absorbed. exergonic reaction A chemical reaction where the change in the Gibbs free energy is negative, indicating a spontaneous reaction.