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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Death > Fetal Death
Urogenital Diseases > Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications > Pregnancy Complications > Fetal Death

Preferred term

Fetal Death  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Demise, Fetal
  • Fetal Demise

Note

  • use PERINATAL DEATH for death of a fetus of gestational age 28 weeks or more; do not confuse with FETAL MORTALITY, a statistical concept

Scope note

  • Death of the developing young in utero. BIRTH of a dead FETUS is STILLBIRTH.

In other languages

  • sikiökuolema

    Finnish

  • fetus mortus
  • fetus mortuus natus NAS
  • kohtukuolema
  • kuolleena syntynyt lapsi
  • kuolleena syntynyt sikiö
  • kuollut sikiö
  • mors fetalis
  • mors fetus causa non specificata
  • sikiön kuolema
  • Fosterdöd

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005313

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