birth injury

birth trau·ma

(bĭrth traw'mă)

1. Physical injury to an infant during its delivery.
Synonym(s): birth injury.

2. The supposed emotional injury, inflicted by events incident to birth, on an infant which allegedly appears in symbolic form in patients with mental illness.

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birth injury

An injury sustained during birth. Such an injury may be caused by the medical attendants (IATROGENIC injury) as a result of difficult delivery by forceps or vacuum extraction, or by attempts to turn the baby into a better position for delivery.

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