Maternal Mortality:

Terms Related to Maternal Mortality

• Health Transition

  Demographic and epidemiologic changes that have occurred in the last five decades in many developing countries and that are characterized by major growth in the ...

• High-Risk Pregnancy

  Pregnancy in which the mother and/or fetus are at greater than normal risk of morbidity or mortality. Causes include lack of adequate prenatal care, previous ...

• Prenatal Care

  Care provided the pregnant woman in order to prevent complications, and decrease the incidence of maternal and prenatal mortality.

• Extranuclear Inheritance

  Vertical transmission of hereditary characters by DNA from cytoplasmic organelles such as MITOCHONDRIA ; CHLOROPLASTS; and PLASTIDS or from intracellular parasites such as viruses and ...

• Maternal Phenylketonuria

  A maternal condition which occurs in untreated or partially treated phenylketonuric females when they become pregnant. This may result in damage to the fetus, including ...