live birth

Other forms: live births

Definitions of live birth
  1. noun
    the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation)
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    antonyms:
    stillbirth
    a natural loss of the products of conception
    types:
    blessed event, happy event
    the live birth of a child
    type of:
    birth, nascence, nascency, nativity
    the event of being born
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