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extrauterine

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ex·tra·u·ter·ine  (kstr-ytr-n, -t-rn)
adj.
Located or occurring outside the uterus: an extrauterine pregnancy.

extrauterine [ˌɛkstrəˈjuːtəˌraɪn]
adj
(Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics) situated or developing outside the cavity of the uterus


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Although neonatal neurodevelopmental assessments are not highly predictive of later functioning, performing a neurologic and neurobehavioral assessment after birth provides an assessment of the immediate effects of prenatal exposure before any influences of the extrauterine environment take place.
With extrauterine smooth-muscle tumors, the less-well-established diagnostic criteria for malignancy are high cellularity, the presence of pleomorphism and bizarre giant cells, a high mitotic count, the size of the tumor, and the presence of necrosis.
We conclude, according to the results of kinematic analysis of our subjects, that the mechanisms responsible for kicking are hardly influenced, at the studied ages, by the extrauterine environment or by supraspinal factors.
 
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