maternal death
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaternalanddeath
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maternal
adjective
uk/məˈtɜː.nəl/us/məˈtɝː.nəl/
behaving or feeling in the way that a mother does towards her child, especially in a kind, ...
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death
noun[C or U]
uk/deθ/us/deθ/
the end ...
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(Definition ofmaternalanddeathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There were no significant differences in the rates ofmaternaldeath, chorioamnionitis or puerperal sepsis.
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In the latter group, one of the patients experienced valve thrombosis leading tomaternaldeath.
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Antibiotics, improvements in anaesthesia and the increased skill of obstetricians who perform more operations have all combined to reduce thematernaldeathrate.
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Unfortunately, thematernaldeathrate and the number of maternal deaths are not known with any accuracy.
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Unfortunately,maternaldeathsample sizes are not large enough to repeat the analysis for smaller subdivisions of the last trimester.
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Obstetricians and maternity staff must be constantly aware of the co-existence of other risks ofmaternaldeathsuch as pulmonary embolus and hypertensive disease.
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But in the next 27 months, only 1maternaldeathoccurred.
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Maternaldeathproduced a large increase in risk for depressive onsets while paternal death produced a much smaller increase.
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Maternaldeathdid not ordinarily lead to an inheritance when the father survived.
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The risk for major depression aftermaternaldeath(=) increases dramatically and then returns relatively quickly to baseline at age 25.
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Study has been limited since the entire pregnant cervix is never available except after a caesarean hysterectomy ormaternaldeath.
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Maternaldeathis the main cause of women's mortality in many countries with a fragile situation.
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Thematernaldeathrate figures were: 4.9 in 1938; 3 in 1944; 2.2 in 1946.
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A unit delivering 3,000 babies a year today might have only onematernaldeathevery five years or so.
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Thematernaldeathrate was the lowest recorded—4·3 per 1,000 total births.
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He made the other remark about the infant andmaternaldeathrates and used rather extravagant language.
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The risk ofmaternaldeathand stillbirth is greatly increased, especially in the absence of skilled health personnel.
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Ourmaternaldeathrate figures have fallen dramatically.
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