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Descriptor English: Live Birth
Descriptor Spanish: Nacimiento Vivo
Descriptor nacimiento vivo
Entry term(s) nacido vivo
nacidos vivos
nacimiento con vida
recién nacido vivo
Scope note: El hecho de que un FETO nazca vivo, con latidos cardiacos o RESPIRACIÓN, con independencia de la EDAD GESTACIONAL. Tal nacido vivo recibe la denominación de neonato (RECIÉN NACIDO).
Descriptor Portuguese: Nascido Vivo
Descriptor French: Naissance vivante
Entry term(s): Live Births
Tree number(s): G08.686.784.769.496.249
SP3.311.300.392.659
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D050498
Scope note: The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).
Annotation: use only in relation to the outcome of the pregnancy; use BIRTH for the physiologic process of giving birth
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
GE genetics
PX psychology
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Infant, Newborn (1967-2003)
Pregnancy (1967-2003)
Pregnancy Outcome (2004-2005)
Public MeSH Note: 2006; see PREGNANCY OUTCOME 2004-2005
History Note: 2006; use PREGNANCY OUTCOME 2004-2005
DeCS ID: 51251
Unique ID: D050498
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2006/01/01
Date of Entry: 2005/06/30
Revision Date: 2018/06/30
Live Birth - Preferred
Concept UI M0439681
Scope note The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).
Preferred term Live Birth
Entry term(s) Live Births



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