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Postmaturity — Overly mature, overly developed, especially as regards a baby. A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after the usual 9 months (280 days) of gestation. The gestation (length of the pregnancy) is calculated from the date of the last menstrual… … Medical dictionary
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
dysmaturity syndrome — postmaturity s … Medical dictionary
placental dysfunction syndrome — postmaturity s … Medical dictionary
dysmaturity — Syndrome of an infant born with relative absence of subcutaneous fat, wrinkling of the skin, prominent finger and toe nails, and meconium staining of the infant s skin and of the placental membranes; often associated with postmaturity or… … Medical dictionary
PS — metric horsepower [Ger. Pferdestarke]; pacemaker syndrome; pain stimulation; paired stimulation; pancreozymin secretin; paradoxical sleep; paralaryngeal space; paranoid schizophrenia; paraspinal; para sympathetic; Parkinson syndrome; parotid… … Medical dictionary
PS — • metric horsepower [Ger. Pferdestarke]; • pacemaker syndrome; • pain stimulation; • paired stimulation; • pancreozymin secretin; • paradoxical sleep; • paralaryngeal space; • paranoid schizophrenia; • paraspinal; • parasympathetic; • Parkinson… … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
Postmature infant — A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after the usual 9 months (280 days) of gestation. The gestation (length of the pregnancy) is calculated from the date of the last menstrual period (LMP). This is an important calculation since, if delivery is … Medical dictionary
dysmature — 1. Denoting faulty development or ripening; often connoting structural and/or functional abnormalities. 2. In obstetrics, denoting an infant whose birth weight is inappropriately low for its gestational age. 3. Immature development of the… … Medical dictionary
Postmature birth — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 10417 ICD10 = ICD10|P|08|2|p|05 ICD9 = ICD9|766.22 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 3248 MeshID = D007233 In order for an infant to be considered postmature,… … Wikipedia
