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PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("prenatal diagnosis" is a kind of...):
diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prenatal diagnosis"):
echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound (using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs)
amnio; amniocentesis ((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)
fetoscopy; foetoscopy (prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood)
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