| MSAFP | Maternal Serum Alpha(α)-Feto-Protein |
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| AAMIH | American Association for Maternal and Infant Health |
| EMIC | emergency maternal and infant care; Environmental Mutagen Information Center |
| FMH | family medical history; fat-mobilizing hormone; feto-maternal hemorrhage; fibromuscular hyperplasia |
| Mat, mat | maternal [origin]; mature |
| maternal health services | Organised services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| maternal immunity | <epidemiology> Immunity for a neonate provided by IgG antibody generated by a mother and passed across the placenta to the unborn offspring. This provides short lived protection (with a typical half life of 3-6 months) to the neonate. Also known as immunity. (05 Dec 1998) |
| maternal inheritance | Inheritance through the maternal cell line, for example through the oocyte and eggs. Mitochondrial genes are maternally inherited and various other nonMendelian forms of inheritance may also appear as maternal inheritance. (18 Nov 1997) |
| maternal mortality | Maternal deaths resulting from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in a given population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal mortality rate | The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number of live births + foetal deaths) in that year. The maternal mortality rate in the united states in 1993 (and 1994) was 0.1 per 1,000 live births, or 1 mother dying per 10,000 live births. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal mRNA | <molecular biology> Messenger RNA found in oocytes and early embryos that is derived from the maternal genome during oogenesis. See: masked messenger RNA. (18 Nov 1997) |
| maternal placenta | <anatomy> The part of the placenta derived from the uterine tissue. See: placenta. Synonym: maternal placenta, placenta uterina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein | A plasma protein, alpha-fetoprotein (afp) is normally produced by the foetus. The level of afp in the blood serum of pregnant women provides a screening test for open neural tube defects (anencephaly and spina bifida) and for down syndrome (and other chromosome abnormalities). The maternal serum afp (msafp) tends to be unusally high with open neural tube defects and unsually low with down syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal welfare | Organised efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the mother. (12 Dec 1998) |
| phenylketonuria, maternal | Phenylketonuria in a pregnant woman. The maternal disease puts the foetus at great risk of mental retardation and other congenital diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mortality rate, maternal | The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number of live births + foetal deaths) in that year. The maternal mortality rate in the united states in 1993 (and 1994) was 0.1 per 1,000 live births, or 1 mother dying per 10,000 live births. (12 Dec 1998) |
| direct maternal death | Death resulting from obstetric complications of the gestation, labour, or puerperium, and from interventions, omissions, incorrect treatment, or a chain of events caused by any of the above, indirect maternal death, an obstetric death resulting from previously existing disease or from disease developing during pregnancy, labour, or the puerperium; it is not directly due to obstetric causes, but to conditions aggravated by the physiological effects of pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| achievement age | The relationship between the chronologic age and the age of achievement, as established by standard achievement tests. (05 Mar 2000) |
| age | 1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. "Mine age is as nothing before thee." (Ps. Xxxix. 5) 2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth? 3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. "Nor wrong mine age with this indignity." (Shak) 4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. 5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. In the United States, both males and females are of age when twenty-one years old. 6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. 7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." "Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness." (Milton) Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle. 8. A great period in the history of the Earth. The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The Archaean, including the time when was no life and the time of the earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens, or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary age, or age of Man, or the modern era. 9. A century; the period of one hundred years. "Fleury . . . Apologizes for these five ages." (Hallam) 10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." "The way which the age follows." (J. H. Newman) "Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age." (C. Sprague) 11. A long time. "He made minutes an age." Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon. Age is used to form the first part of many compounds; as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age-enfeebled, agelong. Synonym: Time, period, generation, date, era, epoch. Origin: OF. Aage, eage, F. Age, fr. L. Aetas through a supposed LL. Aetaticum. L. Aetas is contracted fr. Aevitas, fr. Aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. Aye ever. Cf. Each. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| age-class | <ecology> A group of individuals of a species that have the same age. (09 Oct 1997) |