Akademik

1. Passage of the offspring from the uterus to the outside world; the act of being born. 2. Specifically, in the human, complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a fetus, irrespective of gestational age, and regardless of whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or whether or not the placenta is attached.

- b. certificate official, legal document recording details of a live b., usually comprising name, date, place, identity of parents, and sometimes additional information such as b. weight.

- premature b. b. of an infant that has achieved a gestation of at least 20 weeks or b. weight of at least 500 g, but before 37 weeks.

birth 'bərth n

1) the emergence of a new individual from the body of its parent

2) the act or process of bringing forth young from the womb

birth vt to give birth to <allowed to \birth her child in her own way (Nancy Robinson)> vi to bring forth or be brought forth as a child or young <contend that \birthing is a natural process, rather than a medical procedure (Kit Miniclier)> <the baby \birthed breech (Jayne Anne Phillips)>

birth adj biological (3) <spent years searching for his \birth parents>

(in obstetrics) see labour.