LIVE BIRTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does live birth mean? 

• LIVE BIRTH (noun)
  The noun LIVE BIRTH has 1 sense:

1. the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation)

  Familiarity information: LIVE BIRTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVE BIRTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("live birth" is a kind of...):

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity (the event of being born)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "live birth"):

blessed event; happy event (the live birth of a child)

Antonym:

stillbirth (a natural loss of the products of conception)

 Context examples 

Also, it does not take into account other risk factors such as the presence of atypical hyperplasia, age of first menstrual period, or age of first live birth.

(Claus model, NCI Thesaurus)

Down syndrome occurs in approximately 1:700 live births.

(Down Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Live births did not differ significantly among the two groups: 404 (34%) in the supplement group and 416 (35%) in the placebo group.

(Zinc, folic acid supplement does not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area, expressed per 1000 people in the population per year.

(Birth Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

The study also found that antioxidant supplements likely do not improve pregnancy and live birth rates.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

Congenital heart defects occur in 1% of live births and fetal heart malformations are implicated in many pregnancies that end in still-birth or spontaneous abortion.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The most common congenital deformation of the foot, occurring in 1 of 1,000 live births.

(Clubfoot, NCI Thesaurus)

Estimates risk of breast cancer based upon current age, age at menarche, age at first live birth, number of first-degree relatives who have had breast cancer, number of breast biopsies, and number of biopsies with atypical hyperplasia.

(Gail risk model, NCI Thesaurus)

The authors only had enough participants to evaluate statistical differences in semen quality but not in pregnancy and live birth rates.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

Antioxidant supplements are commercially available to help treat male infertility, but research on its effects on semen quality and rates of pregnancy and live birth are limited.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)