What's the difference between antenatal and antepartum?

Antenatal


Definition:

  • (a.) Before birth.

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  • (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.

Antepartum


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