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Definition: Stillbirth |
StillbirthNoun1. A natural loss of the products of conception. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The birth of a dead fetus or baby. (references) |
Medicine | A foetus or baby dead at birth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Miscarriage is commonly used to describe the loss of a fetus, usually before the age of gestation of 20 weeks. Stillbirth is the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth, regardless of the stage of development.
If a pregnancy is terminated deliberately, this is termed induced abortion, which may be medical or surgical in nature.
Causes
Stillbirth, or more generically pregnancy loss, may be caused by:
The cause for any specific stillbirth is not always known.
Effects
Pregnancy loss is often emotionally devastating to the parents, particularly the mother. The stillbirth of an infant near or at term may be even more difficult to bear than early miscarriage. Parents who have lost a child to stillbirth may experience rage, depression, isolation, marital difficulties, and trouble resuming normal life.
Also See
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stillbirth."
Synonyms: StillbirthSynonyms: miscarriage (n), spontaneous abortion (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: live birth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stillbirth |
| Specialty definitions using "stillbirth": Pregnancy Outcome ♦ type I achondrogenesis. (references) |
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Health | In pregnant women, GBS can cause bladder infections, womb infections (amnionitis, endometritis), and stillbirth. (references) | |
Depending on how long a pregnant woman has been infected, she has a good chance of having a stillbirth (syphilitic stillbirth) or of giving birth to a baby who dies shortly after birth. (references) | ||
Harmful effects on the baby may include stillbirth, low birth weight, conjunctivitis (eye infection), pneumonia, neonatal sepsis (infection in the blood stream), neurologic damage (such as brain damage or motor disorder), congenital abnormalities (including blindness, deafness, or other organ damage), acute hepatitis, meningitis, chronic liver disease, and cirrhosis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stillbirth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stillbirth" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stillbirth | 90 |
cause stillbirth | 9 |
memorial stillbirth | 7 |
picture stillbirth | 6 |
after pregnancy stillbirth | 4 |
pregnancy stillbirth | 4 |
baby picture stillbirth | 4 |
loss pregnancy stillbirth | 3 |
stillbirth story | 2 |
poem stillbirth | 2 |
after conceive stillbirth trying | 2 |
chat stillbirth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stillbirth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lindje e frytit të vdekur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مولود ميتا, ولادة جنين ميت. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | раждане на мъртво дете. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 死胎. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | porod mrtvého dítìte, mrtvý plod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | doedfoedt (stillborn), doedfoedsel (rate of stillbirths), dødfødt (dead birth, fetal death, foetal death), dødfødsel (dead birth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geboorte van dode vrucht, doodgeborene (stillborn), doodgeboorte (dead birth, fetal death, foetal death). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuolleena syntyminen, kuolleen sikiön synnytys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mort-né (stillborn), mortinaissance, mort la naissance, animal mort-né, accouchement d'un enfant mort né. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Totgeburt (stillborn child). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γέννηση νεκρού (dead birth, stillborn), γεννημένο νεκρό (stillborn), εμβρυικός θάνατος (dead birth), εμβρυική θνησιμότητα (dead birth, fetal death, foetal death), θνησιγενές ζώο, θνησιγενές (slink, slunk, stillborn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ת מת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parto di un feto morto (dead birth), parto con feto morto (dead birth), nato morto (stillborn), nascita di un nato morto (stillborn), animale nato morto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 死" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しざ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사산. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illbirthstay nascimento de uma criança morta. (various references) мертвый плод. (various references) mrtvorođenost. (various references) nacimiento de un niño muerto, nacido muerto (stillborn), animal nacido muerto. (various references) dödfödsel. (various references) การคลอ"แบบทารกตายในครร ์. (various references) ölü doğum. (various references) народженя мертвого плода, мертвий плід. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stillbirth": stillbirths. (additional references) | |
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"Stillbirth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stillbrith. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-i-i-l-l-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: littlish. | |
-3 letters: thrills. | |
-4 letters: births, brills, britts, shrill, thills, thirls, thirst, thrill, tilths, trills. | |
-5 letters: bills, birls, birth, bitts, brill, brits, britt, hills, hilts, libri, lilts, rills, rishi, shill, shirt, still, stilt, thill, thirl, tills, tilth, tilts, tirls, titis, trill. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-i-i-l-l-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: stillbirths. | |
+4 letters: bloodthirstily. | |
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