(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
(n.) See Berth.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(5) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(6) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(7) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(8) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(9) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(10) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
(11) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(12) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(13) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(14) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(15) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(16) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(17) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(18) A multiple regression analysis between maxBIL and the significantly correlated parameters showed that only gestational age and birth weight remained significantly correlated with maxBIL.
(19) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(20) Galactosylsphingosine had already accumulated at birth and dramatically increased with age.
Stillborn
Definition:
(a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
(a.) Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
(2) Among infants weighing less than 2 500 g, perinatal mortality was higher in the local hospital than in the university hospital, the higher mortality being due to the higher rate of stillborn infants.
(3) The presence or absence of the heterophile transplantation antigen was sought in renal tissue from stillborn infants, primary cell cultures, and several organs from adult human cadavers.
(4) Five normal infants were delivered by cesarean section, and one stillborn infant was delivered vaginally.
(5) A stillborn girl, with external signs of trisomy 18 syndrome, was subsequently shown to have a mosaic pattern in both the lymphocytes and the placenta.
(6) Two infants with previously abnormal or suspicious FAT, OCT, and intrapartum fetal heart tracings were stillborn.
(7) Three stillborn infants were assessed as SGA, even when gestational age was estimated from the last occasion when fetal heart sounds were registered.
(8) A stillborn male child with anencephaly and multiple malformations was found to have the karyotype 46,XY,r(13) (p11q21.1).
(9) The third fetus was mildly hydropic, attributed to hemorrhage, and was stillborn.
(10) In a total sample of 105 triploid spontaneous abortions and live-born and stillborn infants, the parental origin could be determined in 77%.
(11) This study ascertained 164 males with non-communicating hydrocephalus in live or stillborn patients in Victoria.
(12) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
(13) An increase was also seen in the number of fetal resorptions and stillborn pups per number of implantation sites in the exposed specimens as compared to the sham and cage controls.
(14) Bacteriological and pathological examinations of all 73 stillborn infants and 96 infants dying soon after delivery in Västerås, Sweden during the period 1971-1974 are reported.
(15) The agalactic sows farrowed a larger number of stillborn piglets, which indicates an early establishment of the disease.
(16) A detailed examination of a stillborn fetus with Apert's syndrome showed several unexpected findings, which prompted a reevaluation of the heretofore generally accepted hypotheses regarding the cause of the dysmorphic craniofacial features in this syndrome.
(17) Abortions, stillborn calves, neonatal mortalities and excessive numbers of weak, slow-starting newborn have contributed to significant losses within the valuable breeding herds at the Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center.
(18) The strongest association was with exposure to stillborn kittens--11 of 51 cases vs. none of 102 controls (P less than .00000)--and with exposure to parturient cats (odds ratio, 10.3; 95% confidence interval, 3.5-31.8).
(19) A stillborn male with skeletal anomalies resembling achondrogenesis with remarkably sclerotic bones is reported.
(20) It is postulated that breathing alters lung-tissue elasticity during the neonatal period, as demonstrated by a significant increase in Vmax in specimens from foals breathing for more than 24 hr compared with those from stillborn foals or those aged less than 24 hr.