perinatal
[per-uh-neyt-l]
- occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
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Then, as now, an attitude of complacency around maternal and perinatal mortality gets in the way of action.
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perinatal
- of, relating to, or occurring in the period from about three months before to one month after birth
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perinatal
(pĕr′ə-nāt′l)- Of, relating to, or being the period around childbirth, especially the five months before and one month after birth.
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