Birth trauma

Introduction: Birth trauma

Description of Birth trauma

Birth trauma (medical condition): An injury to the mother caused by childbirth.

See also:

Birth Injury:
  »Introduction: Birth Injury
  »Symptoms of Birth Injury

Birth trauma: Any physical injury occurring during the birth process.

Birth trauma: (1) physical injury to an infant during its delivery; (2) the supposed emotional injury, inflicted by events incident to birth, on an infant, it allegedly appears in symbolic form in patients with mental illness.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Birth trauma: physical injury to an infant during the birth process.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Birth trauma: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Birth trauma:

• Birth
• Birth symptoms (844 causes)
• Trauma

Birth trauma as a Disease

Birth trauma: Another name for Birth Injury (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Birth Injury
  »Symptoms of Birth Injury

Symptoms of Birth trauma (Birth Injury)

Some of the symptoms of Birth trauma incude:

• Blood loss
• Shock
• Increased heart rate
• Perineum tear
• Placental retention

See full list of 6 symptoms of Birth trauma (Birth Injury)

Birth trauma as a Symptom

Birth trauma (symptom): injury during labor and delivery.

Birth trauma (symptom): See Birth trauma (symptom information).

More information on symptom: Birth trauma:

• Birth trauma

Birth trauma: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Birth trauma:

• erb's palsy
• clavicle fracture
• femur fracture
• caesarean fracture
• hypoxic encephalopathy

Terms associated with Birth trauma:

Broader terms for Birth trauma

• injury
• hurt
• harm
• trauma

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Birth trauma

The following list attempts to classify Birth trauma into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• harm,hurt,injury,trauma
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

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