Medical Term:
dysmature
Pronunciation: dis′mă-chūr
Definition:
- Denoting faulty development or ripening; often connoting structural and/or functional abnormalities.
- In obstetrics, denoting an infant whose birth weight is inappropriately low for its gestational age.
- Immature development of the placenta so that normal function does not occur.
Synonym(s): placental dysfunction
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