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stillbirth

noun

Meaning

  1. The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
  2. (modern medicine) The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

spontaneous abortion(English)miscarriage(English)stillborn(English)unbirth(English)nonbirth(English)freebirth(English)natural birth(English)deathling(English)preterm(English)neonatal(English)gestational(English)fetal(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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