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PERINATOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perinatology mean?
• PERINATOLOGY (noun)
The noun PERINATOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium
Familiarity information: PERINATOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("perinatology" is a kind of...):
midwifery; OB; obstetrics; tocology (the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother)
Derivation:
perinatologist (an obstetrician specializing in perinatology)
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