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A lesion on the conjunctiva of the eye caused by a severe deficiency of vitamin A.  

A facility with homelike atmosphere used for delivering babies, birthing rooms.  

Abnormal structures or functions of an infant due to heredity, prenatal environment, or the birth process. Malformations, malfunctions, and other congenital disorders that appear in newborns, including genetic disorders and chromosomal abnormalities as well as problems resulting from other causes, such as exposure to radiation, drugs, disease, or injury during pregnancy or childbirth. Some defects…

Also called family planning. Exercise of deliberate choice over when one will conceive and bear a child, in this sense also called family planning. In a wider sense, birth control also refers to the social goal of limiting family size and therefore population growth by limiting conception. In addition, birth control refers to the various…

The rapid human growth that occurs just after birth. It is assumed that this rapid growth represents catch-up for growth that was denied during the fetus’ last weeks in the uterus.  

The entrance into the external environment of a neonate. Act of being born; emergence of the fetus from the uterus, its separation from the mother, and the start of its independent life (usually after about 266 days of gestation); also called parturition. The process in which a baby is delivered from the mother. In an…

The first stage of development of the embryonic gonads. At this point, the tissue can differentiate into either ovaries or testes.  

In genetics, a chromosome having two corresponding parts.  

A birthrate of 50 per 1000 population per year.