PERINATOLOGY

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 I. (noun) 

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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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