| NSVD | normal spontaneous vaginal delivery |
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| SAVD | spontaneous assisted vaginal delivery |
| SD | Sandhoff disease; senile dementia; septal defect; serologically defined; serologically detectable; s... |
| PTD | percutaneous transluminal dilatation; permanent total disability; personality trait disorder; preter... |
| VE | vaginal examination; Venezuelan encephalitis; venous emptying; venous extension; ventilation; ventil... |
| postmortem delivery | Extraction of the foetus after the death of its mother. Synonym: perimortem delivery. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| premature delivery | Birth of a foetus before its proper time. See: premature birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| high forceps delivery | Delivery by forceps applied to the foetal head before engagement has taken place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delivery | Expulsion or extraction of the child and the after-birth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery, breech | A breech delivery is birth, buttocks first. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery, footling | There are single-footling or double-footling deliveries depending upon whether the presenting part of the baby at delivery is just one foot or both feet. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care | The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care, integrated | A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (coddington et al., integrated health care: reorganizing the physician, hospital and health plan relationship, 1994, p7) (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery rooms | Hospital units equipped for childbirth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery system | A manmade system with the purpose of delivering a drug or another chemical directly into a cellular target, such as a via a manmade vesicle called a liposome. (09 Oct 1997) |
| drug delivery | The method and route used to provide medication. (16 Dec 1997) |
| drug delivery systems | Systems of administering drugs through controlled delivery so that an optimum amount reaches the target site. Drug delivery systems encompass the carrier, route, and target. (12 Dec 1998) |
| outlet forceps delivery | Delivery by forceps applied to the foetal head when it has reached the perineal floor and is visible between contractions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| targeted drug delivery | Delivering a drug to a specific site in the body where it has the greatest effect, instead of allowing it to diffuse to various sites, where it may cause damage or trigger side effects. (14 Nov 1997) |
| forceps delivery | Assisted birth of the child by an instrument designed to grasp the foetal head. (05 Mar 2000) |