(a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(4) 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.
(5) These studies, in addition to demonstrating that the placenta contains TRH deamidase activity, suggest that losses of fetal TRH through the placenta are not large.
(6) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(7) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(8) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(9) We have not had another incidence of fetal scalp infection associated with intrapartum monitoring.
(10) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
(11) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(12) It is suggested that the low-density lipoprotein receptors in human fetal liver may play a key role in the regulation of the serum cholesterol levels during gestation.
(13) In addition, the findings suggest a need for a supply of glucose of fetal origin for cells that are responsible for increased PGFM concentrations in the maternal uteroplacental circulation.
(14) In addition, these parameters may be useful in differentiating the various causes of fetal acidemia.
(15) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
(16) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(17) Antigenic specificity was demonstrated between tricalcium phosphate ceramic and fetal bovine serum in crisscross.
(18) Cell Biol., 101:1990-1998), the fetal antigen is specifically associated with regions of neuronal sprouting and, therefore, can be used as a molecular marker of neurite growth.
(19) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(20) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
Meconium
Definition:
(n.) Opium.
(n.) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(2) It is suggested that the decreased activity of alpha-D-mannosidase and beta-glucuronidase might contribute to the accumulation of the abnormal substances in CF meconium.
(3) In the pregnancies in which the amniotic fluid samples were taken antepartum, the prevalence of meconium-stained amniotic fluid increased with elevating amniotic fluid myoglobin (p less than 0.05, Group A vs. Group C).
(4) In spite of the risks inherent in the use of Urografin amniography, as well as of amniocentesis, there appear to be a great number of advantages to the treatment of meconium obstruction of the fetus in utero.
(5) The attachment by type 1 fimbriated strains to HT-29 cells was reduced by meconium only in some cases.
(6) Craniofacial anomalies, congenital perinatal infections, and meconium aspiration are strong predictors of hearing loss, especially in term infants.
(7) Intestinal stasis and mixing of urine and meconium may be predisposing factors for the calcification of meconium.
(8) The P50 value for cumulative acidosis is 55 minutes, indicating a more rapid deterioration than an average-for-gestational-age fetus without meconium.
(9) The aim of the study was to determine the risk of meconium aspiration by perinatal and obstetric characteristics and to give directions for prophylactic management.
(10) Meconium was present on the fleece of 114 newborn lambs in sixty-two per cent of the cases.
(11) The time of initial meconium passage was significantly earlier in both groups of early fed infants than in the control group, F = 4.202, p = .026.
(12) At least nine mechanical devices are available for suctioning the tracheae of meconium-stained newborns.
(13) A neonate is reported with the meconium cyst form of meconium peritonitis secondary to appendiceal perforation, which occurred prior to birth.
(14) Of these the failure in 87 was due to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and in four it resulted from massive meconium aspiration.
(15) Threatened abortion (16.2%), EPH gestosis (22.3%), impaired glucose tolerance (8.3%), gestational diabetes (7.2%), delivery before 37 weeks (11.5%), delivery after 42 weeks (3.6%), premature rupture of the membranes (18.3%), meconium-stained amniotic fluid (19.8%), elective caesarean section (11.5%), caesarean section delivery (16.5%), vacuum extraction (4.7%), placental lysis or uterine exploration (4.3%) were more frequent in the study than in the control group (P less than 0.05).
(16) Of the remaining 16 patients with unresolved meconium ileus, nine were treated with laparotomy and ileostomy, and one with laparotomy and T-tube irrigation.
(17) To assess the usefulness of three methods of high-frequency ventilation in the early management of a piglet model of the meconium aspiration syndrome.
(18) The test takes 5 to 10 minutes to perform, is cheap and easy, is not affected by blood, but may be affected by meconium.
(19) The frequency of false-negative results of the MVE assay was 1.3 per cent and that of false-positive results, as judged by the albumin meconium test, was 5.0 per cent.
(20) The results suggest that the presence of antepartum meconium implies an increase in fetal risk, demanding an adequate analysis of the obstetric solutions, which is discussed.