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Maternal meaning
Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly. | Related through the mother, or her side of the family. | Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.
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The concentrations of these chemicals is thought to be influenced by fetal and maternal immune systems, maternal consumption of certain drugs, maternal stress, and direct injection.
From June 2021 to June 2022, the Buba Health Center recorded no maternal death, reflecting the life-changing improvements in maternal health outcomes achieved under Dr Bako's guidance.
The CDC’s recent endorsement of Pfizer’s maternal vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus is poised to make a profound impact on maternal and child healthcare.
The report, Trends in maternal mortality, reveals alarming setbacks for women’s health over recent years, as maternal deaths either increased or stagnated in nearly all regions of the world.
To improve maternal health, barriers that limit access to quality maternal health services must be identified and addressed at both health system and societal levels.
A key aspect of this program is the creation of a rural maternal health residency program, bringing much-needed maternal care to underserved regions of the state.
The maternal-specific inheritance pattern of Angelman syndrome is due to genomic imprinting of in neurons of the central nervous system, a naturally occurring phenomenon in which the maternal allele is expressed and the paternal is not.
The review of maternal deaths highlighted the direct evoked causes of reported maternal deaths: hemorrhage (delivery hemorrhage), severe infections, postoperative complications (pelvic peritonitis), and eclampsia.
A bill she introduced, the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act, was signed into law last year and authorizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer grants to states for tracking and analyzing maternal mortality data.
They correlated maternal addresses with locations of oil and gas wells and estimated the intensity of maternal exposure (drilling, well completion, production) from three months prior to conception through the second month of pregnancy.
Ewe lambs, sired by Mount Ronan Maternal and White Suffolk rams, and out of Mount Ronan Maternal bloodline ewes at "Hills Park", Yerong Creek, New South Wales, in December 2017.
Maternal mental health is a public health priority due to its impact on both maternal and child health.
She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Hamon and Polly Barber, of Blackshear, her maternal grandmother, Ida Lee Gailey Box, and her maternal grandfather, Dennis Gailey Sr.
Termination rates also varied with maternal age, gestational age, and maternal race/ethnicity.
Bruneian royal houses adopted the maternal succession system; it is known for certain that his maternal granddaughter became the Queen of Sultan Sharif Ali.
Computational predictive models citation have shown that extensive and diverse feto-maternal protein trafficking occurs during pregnancy and can be readily detected non-invasively in maternal whole blood.
Ectopic pregnancy is responsible for 6% of maternal deaths during the first trimester of pregnancy making it the leading cause of maternal death during this stage of pregnancy.
Goals for achieving an optimal caesarean delivery rate should be based on maximizing the best possible maternal and neonatal outcomes, taking into account available medical and health resources and maternal preferences.
Semmelweis, despite ridicule and opposition, introduced compulsory handwashing for everyone entering the maternal wards and was rewarded with a plunge in maternal and fetal deaths, however the Royal Society dismissed his advice.
Thousands of former child soldiers have fallen into substance abuse as they try to blunt their memories. citation Maternal and child health According to 2010 estimates, Sierra Leone has the 5th highest maternal mortality rate in the world.