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Vinony

stillbirth

noun

  1. death of a fetus before or during delivery, resulting in delivery of a dead baby
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From still + birth.

  1. The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
  2. The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.

    “Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.”