stillbirth
IPA: stˈɪɫbɝθ
noun
- The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
- (medicine) The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.
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Examples of "stillbirth" in Sentences
- Stillborn can refer to stillbirth in medicine.
- Stillbirth of son and ife's infection with AIDS.
- Her third pregnancy in 1971 ended in a stillbirth.
- Phil wants a divorce after their baby's stillbirth.
- Fetal mortality refers to stillbirths or fetal death.
- Alley experienced a miscarriage and later a stillbirth.
- That medically, stillbirth and miscarriage are distinct.
- Alley also experienced a miscarriage as well as a stillbirth.
- But look at the actual discussion at stillbirth that KC emphasizes.
- Miscarriage, stillbirth and preterm labor are complications of this infection.
- A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
- One of my great-grandmothers had picture-perfect pregnancies that ended in stillbirth in all but one case – my grandfather.
- Shannon Torrez's attorney asked family and friends to testify to his client's good nature and to build a case that her actions were caused by severe postpartum depression, the result of a full-term stillbirth that occurred the same day as the kidnapping.