stillbirth

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stillbirth

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noun stillbirths · still-birth

  1. countable, uncountable The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
  2. countable, uncountable The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation. Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.

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noun birth of a dead fetus

Españolparto muerto, mortinato, mortinatalidad
한국어사산 sasan
日本語死産 shizan
中文死胎 sǐtāi, 死產 /死产 sǐchǎn
Portuguêsmortinatalidade, morte fetal
Françaismortinaissance, mortinatalité
DeutschTotgeburt
Italianomortinatalità
Ελληνικάθνησιγένεια thnisigéneia
Русскиймертворожде́ние mertvoroždénije

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@misc{stillbirth_2026,
  title = {stillbirth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stillbirth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}