Concept information
Preferred term
measures of fetal death
Definition
- The World Health Organization defines a fetal death as the death of a production of conception prior to complete expulsion or extraction from its mother, regardless of length of pregnancy. Factors that indicate a fetal death after separation from the mother include no breathing or evidence of life by the fetus, pulsation of umbilical cord, or voluntary muscle movement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Fetal Death, Measures of]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/measures_of_fetal_death
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