What's the difference between antenatal and antepartum?
Antenatal
Definition:
(a.) Before birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(3) Adjustment for possible mechanisms correlated with social class (marital status, smoking, time of first antenatal visit) decreased the higher occurrence of low birthweight infants in the low educational groups.
(4) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
(5) This observation led us to believe that ear measurements might be useful in the antenatal prediction of fetuses with abnormal karyotypes.
(6) Maternal serum alpha fetoprotein (AFP) was measured as part of a routine antenatal screening programme in 48 patients positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg).
(7) The information was obtained from the Finnish Cancer Registry and from the antenatal records of the mothers.
(8) The authors report eight cases of antenatal diagnosis of sacro-coccygeal teratoma (SCT) in five girls and three boys in whom the diagnosis was made between the 19th and 34th week of amenorrhea (mean = 27 weeks).
(9) Scotland as a result of genetic counselling and antenatal foetal sexing.
(10) Data were collected from 250 females attending MCH centers during the first half of 1991 for either vaccinating their children or receiving antenatal care (exposed group).
(11) Majority of the students had correct knowledge about dietary advice during antenatal and postnatal period.
(12) In alloimmune thrombocytopenia, on the other hand, intracranial hemorrhages occur in approximately 20% of all identified cases, and as many as one-half of these occur antenatally.
(13) Antenatal diagnosis consists in screening for fetal hydrocephalus.
(14) From October 1972 to December 1974 the most important antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum data on 2210 deliveries were coded.
(15) 181 asymptomatic black prenatal patients attending the antenatal clinic for their first antenatal visit volunteered for the study and gave their written consent.
(16) Examples are presented of interventions focusing on family planning, educational program content, modification of health-related behavior, and improvement of access to antenatal care.
(17) Antenatal counseling was seldom undertaken by those responsible for the postnatal care.
(18) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(19) Fetal abuse may be one antecedent of child abuse, and this paper attempts to transpose the known correlates of child abuse into an antenatal time framework.
(20) This study evaluates the level of dental knowledge among 328 antenatal mothers from different ethnic groups and ascertains the importance of the various sources of dental information.