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Noun
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1. The birth of a dead fetus. The delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.

Usage notes
Most uses of the term stillbirth differentiate the term from miscarriage.

Quotations
1988 � w:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan, s:Proclamation 5890|Proclamation 5890
:Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.

Translations

Chinese: 死� (sitai)
Dutch: doodgeborene
French: mortinaissance
German: Totgeburt
Greek: θνη�ιγένεια (thn�sigéneia)
Italian: mortinatalità
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Japanese: 死� (��� shizan)
Korean: ��
Latin: mortinatalitas (Vulgar Latin and Neo-Latin) nominative, mortinatalitatis genitive, partus mortuus (Classical Latin)
Russian: ме��во�ождение (mertvorozhdeniye)
Spanish: parto muerto

Related terms
stillborn

See also
death
live birth
maternal death

Category:Death

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