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Fetal Death(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Fetal Death
Used for/see from:
  • n: Fetal Demise
  • Fetal Mummification
  • n: Death, Fetal
  • n: Deaths, Fetal
  • n: Demise, Fetal
  • n: Fetal Deaths
  • n: Mummification, Fetal

use PERINATAL DEATH for death of a fetus of gestational age 28 weeks or more; do not confuse with FETAL MORTALITY, a statistical concept

Death of the developing young in utero. BIRTH of a dead FETUS is STILLBIRTH.

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