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Definition of Live birth
1. Noun. The birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation).
Specialized synonyms: Blessed Event, Happy Event
Antonyms: Stillbirth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Live Birth
Literary usage of Live birth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"The Scottish law on this subject presents us with this singular anomaly, that
while it requires proof of respiration or crying as evidence of a live birth, ..."
2. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"The law has not defined "live-birth," save by the decisions of the judges.
live birth may be stated to be "-the manifestation of some certain sign or signs ..."
3. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1892)
"CHAPTER X. Infanticide—live birth—Appearance of Infant Born at Full Term—Means
of determining whether Child has ..."
4. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1916)
"live birth. By live birth is meant simply that the fetus was born alive, ...
A strict medico-legal rendering of the term live birth ignores entirely the ..."
5. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1873)
"live birth in civil cases.—The law of England has not defined the meaning of the
term Birth, in reference to civil jurisprudence ; but if we are to be ..."
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