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live birth

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live birth
n
(Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics) the birth of a living child Compare stillbirth
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Noun1.live birth - the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation)
nascence, nascency, nativity, birth - the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
blessed event, happy event - the live birth of a child
spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, miscarriage - a natural loss of the products of conception


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The two groups had similar odds of having experienced amenorrhea or infertility, having been pregnant, having had a live birth and having had an adverse birth outcome (miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, neonatal death or hydatidiform mole).
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7 million live births and almost 12,000 infant deaths over four years.
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Canada's crude birth rate (the number of live births for every 1,000 people in the population), edged downward to another record low in 2004--despite a second straight increase in the number of live births.
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