Phenomena and Processes

Live Birth

The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).

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Abstract

The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Live Births

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Aspects Covered

6 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, epidemiology, ethnology, genetics, psychology, veterinary.

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Indexing Annotation

use only in relation to the outcome of the pregnancy; use BIRTH for the physiologic process of giving birth

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History Note

2006; use PREGNANCY OUTCOME 2004-2005

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Previous Indexing

  • Infant, Newborn (1967-2003)
  • Pregnancy (1967-2003)
  • Pregnancy Outcome (2004-2005)

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  1. G08.686.784w.769w.496.249w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Live Birth. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D050498. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D050498
  2. Live Birth. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_birth_(human)
  3. Live Birth. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1543380