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Premature Birth

"Premature Birth" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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CHILDBIRTH before 37 weeks of PREGNANCY (259 days from the first day of the mother's last menstrual period, or 245 days after FERTILIZATION).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Premature Birth" by people in this website by year, and whether "Premature Birth" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 84 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2023
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