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Stillborn   Listen
adjective
Stillborn  adj.  
1.
Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
2.
Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.





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"Stillborn" Quotes from Famous Books



... the diseases mentioned above. As authorities have pointed out in all these books, the jails, hospitals for the insane, poorhouses and houses of prostitution are filled with the children born of such parents, while an astounding number of their children are either stillborn or ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger
... Gas due to putrefaction collects under the pleural membrane, and can be expelled by pressure, and is not found in the air cells. The lungs decompose late, hence in a fresh body putrefaction of the lungs is absent; in a putrefied child, if the lungs sink, it must have been stillborn. The so-called emphysema pulmonum neonatorum ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson


Words linked to "Stillborn" :   unsuccessful, unfruitful, dead, stillborn infant


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