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Miscarriage

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A pregnancy that ends at a stage in which the fetus is incapable of surviving on its own, defined as the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 22th week of pregnancy. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199 ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • UMLS:C0000786
  • SNOMEDCT_US:17369002
  • MSH:D000022
comment

The age at which fetal demise is legally classified asa a miscarriage varies between countries with the US being 20 gestational weeks and the UK being 24 gestational weeks. The HPO chooses the average of these age ranges.

definition

A pregnancy that ends at a stage in which the fetus is incapable of surviving on its own, defined as the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 22th week of pregnancy.

has exact synonym

Early fetal demise, Spontaneous abortion

id

HP:0005268

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