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Live Birth

"Live Birth" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Live Birth" by people in this website by year, and whether "Live Birth" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 22 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015 and 2019 and 2020 and 2022
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