prenatal growth
Womb-based maturation process
Prenatal growth is the development of an organism before birth, from conception through the embryonic and fetal stages.
The term appears in medical and developmental contexts: prenatal growth charts, factors affecting prenatal growth.
Restricted prenatal growth can indicate health complications for mother or child.
- cell divisionParent splitting into offspring
- morning sicknessPregnancy-related nausea
- baby bumpPregnant woman's protruding stomach
- amniocentesisPrenatal diagnostic fluid extraction
- teratogensAgents causing fetal malformations
ultrasound imaging · embryogenesis · neural tube · organogenesis · preeclampsia · gestational diabetes · angiogenesis · apoptosis · implantation · first trimester · fetal monitoring · obstetric care · cord blood · folic acid · mitosis · genetic screening · trimester · quickening
- growthincrease, increasing, expansion, expand, expanding
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, due date, weeks, first trimester
- embryologyembryo, zygote, embryology, blastocyst, embryogenesis