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Descriptor English: Pregnancy, Prolonged
Descriptor Spanish: Embarazo Prolongado
Descriptor embarazo prolongado
Scope note: Término empleado para describir los embarazos que superan el límite superior de un período gestacional normal. En los humanos, se define un embarazo prolongado como el que se extiende más de 42 semanas (294 días) después del primer día del últimno período menstrual (MENSTRUACIÓN), o nacimiento con edad gestacional de 41 semanas o más.
Descriptor Portuguese: Gravidez Prolongada
Descriptor French: Grossesse prolongée
Entry term(s): Pregnancies, Prolonged
Prolonged Pregnancies
Prolonged Pregnancy
Tree number(s): C12.050.703.805
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011273
Scope note: A term used to describe pregnancies that exceed the upper limit of a normal gestational period. In humans, a prolonged pregnancy is defined as one that extends beyond 42 weeks (294 days) after the first day of the last menstrual period (MENSTRUATION), or birth with gestational age of 41 weeks or more.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Entry Version: PREGN PROLONGED
DeCS ID: 22263
Unique ID: D011273
NLM Classification: WQ 240
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2005/06/30
Pregnancy, Prolonged - Preferred
Concept UI M0017502
Scope note A term used to describe pregnancies that exceed the upper limit of a normal gestational period. In humans, a prolonged pregnancy is defined as one that extends beyond 42 weeks (294 days) after the first day of the last menstrual period (MENSTRUATION), or birth with gestational age of 41 weeks or more.
Preferred term Pregnancy, Prolonged
Entry term(s) Pregnancies, Prolonged
Prolonged Pregnancies
Prolonged Pregnancy



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