Maternal
121maternal dystocia — dystocia due to some condition inherent in the mother …
122maternal immunity — passively transferred humoral immunity from the mother to the offspring, across the placenta before birth in primates, from the colostrum via the intestines in ungulates, and from the egg yolk in birds …
123maternal-fetal medicine — a subspecialty of obstetrics concerned with the obstetrical, medical, genetic, and surgical complications of pregnancy and their effects on the mother and fetus. Called also fetology …
124maternal microchimerism — persistence of cells derived from the mother in her offspring …
125maternal obstetric palsy — paralysis affecting some portion of the mother s lower limb due to compression of a nerve during delivery, usually when the fetus is large and the mother is small and has difficult labor. The most common cause is compression of the lumbosacral… …
126maternal obstetric paralysis — see under palsy …
127maternal phenylketonuria — abnormal fetal development in pregnant women with PKU, probably due to intrauterine exposure of the fetus to high levels of phenylalanine. Miscarriages are frequent and most surviving offspring are severely mentally retarded, often with… …
128maternal deprivation syndrome — failure to thrive with severe growth retardation (deprivation dwarfism), unresponsiveness to the environment, depression, retarded mental and emotional development, and behavioral problems resulting from loss of, absence of, or neglect by the… …
