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perinatology

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per·i·na·tol·o·gy  (pr-n-tl-j)
n.
The medical study of the life and development of fetuses and infants during the perinatal period.
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Noun1.perinatology - the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium
midwifery, obstetrics, tocology, OB - the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother


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Spong, chief of the Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch at the NICHD.
Balderston currently works as director of perinatology in the Center for Genetics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
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