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Postmenstrual age

A maturity measure in completed weeks, the gestational age at birth plus the weeks since birth, tracking the age the fetus would have reached in the womb.

Origin

From Latin post, after, and menstrualis, monthly: counted from the last menstrual period.

Card id: postmenstrual-age

Sources

  • Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Age Terminology During the Perinatal Period. Pediatrics, 2004. https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/114/5/1362/67715/Age-Terminology-During-the-Perinatal-Period
  • Stokowski LA. Age Terminology During the Perinatal Period. Advances in Neonatal Care, 2005. https://www.ovid.com/jnls/advancesinneonatalcare/fulltext/10.1016/j.adnc.2004.12.001~age-terminology-during-the-perinatal-period

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