- maternal-fetal medicine
- a subspecialty of obstetrics concerned with the obstetrical, medical, genetic, and surgical complications of pregnancy and their effects on the mother and fetus. Called also fetology.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
maternal-fetal medicine
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