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obstetric risk
The likelihood of complications or adverse events during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum that may affect maternal or fetal health and require specialised medical care.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Sign / symptom
Level of specialization Medium
Definition source Propia
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Variants
Synonym
birth complications
Informal
high-risk pregnancy
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

riesgo obstétrico
Associated concepts
Is accompanied by
pregnancy
neonatal morbidity
Examples
Design, construction, and validation of obstetric risk classification systems to predict intensive care unit admission.
The study emphasizes that ovarian transposition should be considered for young patients undergoing pelvic radiotherapy and that medial ovarian transposition offers superior reproductive outcomes, though pregnancies after ovarian transposition carry increased obstetric risk and require close monitoring.
Collocations
WITH NOUNS
validation of obstetric risk
WITH ADJECTIVES
increased obstetric risk