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Definition of Birth trauma

1. Noun. Physical injury to an infant during the birth process.

2. Noun. Emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness.

Medical Definition of Birth trauma

1. Physical injury to an infant during its delivery, the supposed emotional injury, inflicted by events incident to birth, upon an infant which allegedly appears in symbolic form in patients with mental illness. Trauma from occlusion, a reversible lesion in the periodontium caused by excessive movement of teeth. Occlusal trauma, abnormal occlusal stresses capable of producing or which have produced pathologic changes in the tooth and its surrounding structures. Psychic trauma, an upsetting experience precipitating or aggravating an emotional or mental disorder. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Birth Trauma

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Literary usage of Birth trauma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"During the early days of life •& convulsion is always of serious import, as it frequently is the result of a birth trauma and suggests a serious brain ..."

2. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1914)
"During the early days of life a convulsion is always of serious import, as it frequently is the result of a birth trauma and suggests a serious brain lesion ..."

3. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"The ability to prevent macrosomia has been proved, but it is uncertain to what extent screening would reduce the overall incidence of birth trauma and ..."

4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"There are many congenital cases reported where there is no special birth trauma: Whitman, 32 out of 264 cases; Redard, 18 out of 70 cases. 2. ..."

5. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Report of the U. S. Preventive by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"... forceps delivery, or birth trauma between treated and control groups in any of the prospective trials, however. There was only one reported instance of ..."

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