noun
definition
The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
definition
(modern medicine) The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.
Examples of stillbirths in a Sentence
Stillbirths and fetal deaths/spontaneous abortions from 20 weeks are registered.
In the 840 women having obstetrician care there were 3 stillbirths, 5 neonatal deaths and 15 miscarriages.
The study, of course, does not include either stillbirths or maternal deaths.
Women who have stillbirths have all the rights they would have had had their baby been born alive.
Raised bile acids have also been reported in 5% of unexplained stillbirths.
Deaths due to congenital abnormalities and antepartum stillbirths were excluded from the mortality rates.
Table VS1 has counts of births and stillbirths by sex, within and outside marriage.
Diabetes can lead to miscarriages, birth defects, and stillbirths.
Listeria-An uncommon food-borne, life-threatening pathogen that can cause perinatal infection, which is associated with a high rate of fetal loss (including full-term stillbirths) and serious neonatal disease.
When rubella infection occurs during pregnancy, fetal infection is likely and often causes congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), resulting in miscarriages, stillbirths, and severe birth defects.
The rate of miscarriages and stillbirths appears to be higher, too.
It has also been linked to an increase in miscarriages and stillbirths.