PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prenatal diagnosis mean? 

• PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS (noun)
  The noun PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS has 1 sense:

1. any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality

  Familiarity information: PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("prenatal diagnosis" is a kind of...):

diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prenatal diagnosis"):

echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound (using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs)

amnio; amniocentesis ((pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities)

fetoscopy; foetoscopy (prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood)