Associations to the word «Perinatology»

Wiktionary

PERINATOLOGY, noun. A branch of obstetrics focusing on the medical and surgical management of high-risk pregnancies.

Dictionary definition

PERINATOLOGY, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats