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The branch of medicine dealing with the FETUS and NEWBORN during the perinatal period. The perinatal period begins with the twenty-eighth week of gestation and ends twenty-eight days after birth.
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- Fetal Medicine
- Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Materno-Fetal Medicine
- Fetal Medicines
- Maternal Fetal Medicine
- Maternal-Fetal Medicines
- Materno Fetal Medicine
- Materno-Fetal Medicines
- Medicine, Fetal
- Medicine, Maternal-Fetal
- Medicine, Materno-Fetal
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12 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
= fetus + newborn infant: differentiate from NEONATOLOGY, the newborn infant only
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History Note
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Previous Indexing
- Obstetrics (1966-1976)
- Pediatrics (1966-1976)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Perinatology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010500. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010500
- Perinatology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal%E2%80%93fetal_medicine
- Perinatology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q582071