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LIVE BIRTH

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("live birth" is a kind of...):

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity (the event of being born)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "live birth"):

blessed event; happy event (the live birth of a child)

Antonym:

stillbirth (a natural loss of the products of conception)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Furthermore, live birth rates did not seem to differ at six months between the antioxidant (15%) and placebo (24%) groups.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)