premature delivery
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprematureanddelivery
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premature
adjective
uk/ˈprem.ə.tʃər/us/ˌpriː.məˈtʊr/
happening or done too soon, especially before the natural or ...
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delivery
noun
uk/dɪˈlɪv.ər.i/us/dɪˈlɪv.ɚ.i/
the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to people's houses or places ...
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(Definition ofprematureanddeliveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Twelve animals had to be discarded from the study because ofprematuredeliveryor surgical complications.
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Prematuredeliverycan interrupt this process and perturb the structure of the white matter.
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Those whose formation is completed in forty days are born in the eighth month and cannot survive theprematuredelivery.
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The fetal survival rates andprematuredeliveryrates were similar for the two techniques in both elective and emergency situations.
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Indeed, there was certainly no case ofprematuredeliverythere.
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Later intra-uterine deaths are referred to as stillbirths and the delivery of small infants after the 28th week is referred to as aprematuredelivery.
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We report a case of fetal hydrops followed byprematuredeliveryand death due to thrombotic occlusion of an abnormally tortuous arterial duct.
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As described above,prematuredeliveryrepresents a global disruption in prenatal development and its effects can be observed across multiple areas of the brain and domains of functioning.
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I do not think there was any question of aprematuredeliveryof that crop.
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Maternal infection is associated withprematuredelivery.
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The risks associated withprematuredelivery, however, are far greater.
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Prematuredelivery, second-trimester pregnancy loss, and uterine rupture are other reported complications.
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It also has high numbers of children with low birth weight, a result ofprematuredeliveryand complications during pregnancy such as gestational diabetes and hypertension.
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As cerclage can induce preterm contractions without preventingprematuredelivery, makes the recommendation that it be used sparingly in women with a history of conization.
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Features included hypoplastic lungs, cleft palate, retrognathia, micrognathism, small thorax, diaphragmatic hernia, distal limb hypoplasia, and early onset of polyhydramnios withprematuredelivery.
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The risk ofprematuredeliveryis thought to be less than the risk of infection after 34 weeks, so delivery is performed.
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