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maturity

n. 1) the date when the payment of the principal amount owed under the terms of a promissory note or bill of exchange becomes due. Quite often a note states that failure to pay interest or installment payments when due "accelerates" the note, making the "maturity date" immediate if such payments are demanded and not paid. 2) the age when one becomes an adult, which is 18 for most purposes. (See: promissory note, bill of exchange, acceleration, legal age)

MATURITY. The time when a bill or note becomes due. In order to bind the endorsers such note or bill must be protested, when not paid, on the last day of grace. See Days of grace.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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A new marker of fetal lung maturity in borderline cases.

Assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of the TDx-FLM II to predict fetal lung maturity

Rapid fetal lung maturity testing: commercial versus NBD-phosphatidylcholine assay.

Standards of laboratory practice: evaluation of fetal lung maturity

Corticosteroids may help target the inflammation associated with development of autoantibody-associated CHB as well as improve fetal lung maturity before premature caesarean delivery.

Fetal atrioventricular heart block

Rather, the obstetrician decided to wait several hours, as he felt that there was no emergency situation present and he wanted to allow time for the steroids to improve the infant plainntiff's fetal lung maturity. The obstetrician later made an independent decision, as the mother's treating physician, to perform the section, for which he took sole responsibility.

Hospital law decisions of note

compile 56 chapters for all health professionals involved in the care of women with high-risk pregnancies that address such issues as nutrition, alcohol and substance abuse, and environmental agents and reproductive risk; genetic screening for Mendelian disorders and fetal aneuploidy and neural tube defects; monitoring fetal lung maturity, antepartum fetal monitoring, and interpreting intrapartum fetal heart tracings; and maternal diseases such as sickle cell anemia, cardiac disease, diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, hypertension, lupus, infections, hepatitis, and HIV.

Queenan's management of high-risk pregnancy; an evidence-based approach, 6th ed

The Tap test an accurate flrst-kine test for fetal lung maturity testing.

Use of clements' modified test and optical density in amniotic and allantoid fluids for evaluation of pulmonary maturity in dogs/Uso do teste de clements modificado e densidade optica do liquido amniotico e alantoideano para avaliacao da maturidade pulmonar em caes/Uso de la prueba de clements y densidade optica de el liquido amniotico y alantoideo para evaluacion de la madurez pulmonar en perros

Neonates who are delivered at 36-38 weeks' gestation after fetal lung maturity is confirmed have nearly double the risk of adverse outcomes, compared with neonates delivered at 39 or 40 weeks, a large retrospective cohort study has shown.

Delaying delivery until 39 weeks aids neonatal outcomes

Previous studies of fetal lung maturity vary from ability to read news prints across test tubes containing amniotic fluid to quantitative LS ratio estimation (18).

Role of echogenic amniotic fluid particles and optical density in prediction of respiratory distress syndrome and labor

Furthermore, elective delivery before 39 weeks' gestation generally is not recommended unless there is evidence of fetal lung maturity. Therefore, researchers sought to describe the timing of elective repeat cesarean deliveries and to assess the associations between the risk of adverse neonatal outcomes and such deliveries at term but before 39 weeks.

Even at term, timing of cesarean is linked to adverse outcomes

"Prednisone is preferred over dexamethasone because it doesn't cross the placenta--other steroids will cross and include the ones used to induce fetal lung maturity," he explained.

Glucocorticoids may relieve painful fibroids in pregnancy

Once fetal lung maturity is achieved as measured by lecithin/sphingomyelin ratios or phosphotidal glycerol levels, delivery is suggested at approximately 38-39 weeks.