antenataladjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌæn.tiˈneɪ.təl/us/ˌæn.tiˈneɪ.t̬əl/UK US prenatalrelating to the medical care given to pregnant women before their babies are born:
antenatal care/classes
the antenatal clinic
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Obstetrics: birth
- birth defect
- birth rate
- born
- born
- breech
- C-section
- caesarean
- childbirth
- contraction
- delivery
- give birth idiom
- induce
- maternity ward
- midwifery
- obstetric
- posh
- postnatal
- puerperal
- rooming-in
- section
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antenatally
adverb uk/ˌæn.tiˈneɪ.təl.i/us/ˌæn.tiˈneɪ.t̬əl.i/
Some foetal abnormalities can be detected antenatally.