What's the difference between gestation and meconium?
Gestation
Definition:
(n.) The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
(n.) The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
(n.) Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(3) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(4) 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.
(5) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(6) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
(7) 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.
(8) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(9) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(10) Neonatal data included birthweight and gestational age.
(11) 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.
(12) A multiple regression analysis between maxBIL and the significantly correlated parameters showed that only gestational age and birth weight remained significantly correlated with maxBIL.
(13) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(14) Serial antepartum platelet alloantibody quantitation by an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay revealed rising antibody titers during advancing gestation.
(15) Combined study of lungs of 85 foetuses and newborns of various gestational age and 8 newborns dying during the first month of life showed the lung surfactant (LS) system to develop in parallel with formation of respiratory parts and lung capillary network.
(16) Nine other close relatives had disorders of carbohydrate metabolism, including gestational diabetes mellitus and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus progressing to insulin use.
(17) The timing of the occurrence of the disease is closely related to the conceptional age of the infant rather than weeks post birth, birth weight, gestational age at birth.
(18) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(19) Only one ewe aborted, 10 days after the first infecting dose, at 94 days of gestation; L monocytogenes was isolated from several sites in both its aborted fetuses.
(20) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
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.