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Stillbirth

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a natural loss of the products of conception wordnet
  3. 3
    The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation. countable, uncountable

    "Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child."

Etymology

From still + birth.

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