Stillbirth vs Deadborn - What's the difference?
stillbirth | deadborn |
The birth of a dead fetus. The delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
* 1988 ,
(dated, rare) Stillborn.
* 1777 , , Essays Moral, Political, Literary , "My Own Life,"
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 6 - Hades,
As a noun stillbirth
is the birth of a dead fetus the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.As an adjective deadborn is
(dated|rare) stillborn.stillbirth
English
(wikipedia stillbirth)Noun
(en noun)- Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth , or the death of the newborn child.
Usage notes
Most uses of the term stillbirth differentiate the term from miscarriage.See also
* death * live birth * maternal deathdeadborn
English
Alternative forms
* dead-bornAdjective
(-)- Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature . It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
- Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
