still·birth (st l bûrth )n. 1. The birth of a dead child or fetus. 2. A child or fetus dead at birth. |
stillbirth [ˈstɪlˌbɜːθ]
n
1. (Medicine / Pathology) birth of a dead fetus or baby
2. (Medicine / Pathology) a stillborn fetus or baby
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| Noun | 1. |  stillbirth - a natural loss of the products of conceptionabortion - termination of pregnancy habitual abortion - repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason) imminent abortion, threatened abortion - the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception incomplete abortion, partial abortion - termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception live birth - the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation) |
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