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AMNIOCENTESIS
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Irregular inflected form: amniocenteses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("amniocentesis" is a kind of...):
prenatal diagnosis (any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality)
centesis ((surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid)
Domain category:
gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)
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