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Birth event

Definition

The sequence of actions by which a baby and the afterbirth (placenta) are expelled or extracted from the uterus at childbirth. The process usually starts spontaneously about 280 days after conception with onset of labour, but it may be started by artificial means.

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University of Oxford 2002. Concise Colour Medical Dictionary 3rd ed. UK: Oxford University Press

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