hydramnion

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Noun

hydramnion (countable and uncountable, plural hydramnions)

(medicine, chiefly dated) Polyhydramnios.
- 1908, British Medical Journal:
  In his case of hydramnion it was situated in the upper ovum in a twin pregnancy. He tapped the upper sac by simple puncture, without making an incision through the parietes.
- 1933, The New England Journal of Medicine:
  The cause of hydramnion in this case being due to a twisted cord, the procedure could not be expected to offer more than temporary relief.
- 1946, Charles Joseph McFadden, Medical Ethics for Nurses:
  Among the diseases of the decidua and fetal membranes, the only condition which creates a moral problem is that of hydramnion.
- 1962, August Pierre Marie Rutten, Oesophageal Atresia: a critical study of the literature and report on sixteen cases:
  It has long been known that hydramnion during pregnancy is relatively often associated with congenital atresia of the digestive tract.
- 2005, Jose Bajo, Asim Kurjak, Donald School Textbook of Transvaginal Sonography, CRC Press, →ISBN:
  No differences in the appearance and volume of the amniotic fluid were detected, particularly in normally volumed cases, moderate hydramnion or even moderate oligoamnion.

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