The branch of medicine dealing with the FETUS and NEWBORN during the perinatal period. The perinatal period begins with the twenty-eighth week of gestation and ends twenty-eight days after birth.

Annotation

= fetus + newborn infant: differentiate from NEONATOLOGY, the newborn infant only

DUI

D010500 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0016313

Previous indexing

Pediatrics (1966-1976); Obstetrics (1966-1976)

History note

77

Public note

77