"stillbirth" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stillbirth.wav [Southern-England] Forms: stillbirths [plural]
Etymology: still + birth Etymology templates: {{compound|en|still|birth}} still + birth Head templates: {{en-noun}} stillbirth (plural stillbirths)
  1. The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth. Categories (topical): Babies, Death, Medicine Translations (birth of a dead fetus): мъртво раждане (mǎrtvo raždane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 死胎 (sǐtāi) (Chinese Mandarin), 死產 (Chinese Mandarin), 死产 (sǐchǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), dødsfødsel [common-gender] (Danish), doodgeboorte (Dutch), kuolleena syntyminen (Finnish), mortinaissance [feminine] (French), mortinatalité [feminine] (French), Totgeburt [feminine] (German), θνησιγένεια (thnisigéneia) [feminine] (Greek), halvaszületés (Hungarian), halvaszülés (Hungarian), andvana fæðing (Icelandic), mortinatalità [feminine] (Italian), 死産 (shizan) (alt: しざん) (Japanese), 사산 (sasan) (alt: 死産) (Korean), mortinatalitas [New-Latin, feminine] (Latin), partus mortuus [Classical-Latin] (Latin), dødfødsel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødfødsel [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), mortinatalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), morte fetal [feminine] (Portuguese), мертворожде́ние (mertvoroždénije) [neuter] (Russian), parto muerto [masculine] (Spanish), mortinato [masculine] (Spanish), ölü doğum (Turkish), мертвонаро́дження (mertvonaródžennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-stillbirth-en-noun-1AwFeF87 Disambiguation of Babies: 75 25 Disambiguation of Death: 48 52 Disambiguation of Medicine: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'birth of a dead fetus': 70 30
  2. (medicine) The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation. Categories (topical): Medicine, Death, Medicine
    Sense id: en-stillbirth-en-noun-tKvw8scP Disambiguation of Death: 48 52 Disambiguation of Medicine: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 22 78 Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: still-birth Related terms: stillborn, death, livebirth, maternal death, jellyfish baby

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        "masculine"
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      "word": "parto muerto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "birth of a dead fetus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mortinato"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "birth of a dead fetus",
      "word": "ölü doğum"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mertvonaródžennja",
      "sense": "birth of a dead fetus",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "мертвонаро́дження"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "gestational age",
    "stillbirth",
    "word sense"
  ],
  "word": "stillbirth"
}

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