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birth

(Beginning), noun animation, arrival, creation, debut, embarkation, establishment, genesis, inauguration, inception, incipience, incunabula, infancy, introduction, nascency, onset, origin, origination, ortus, vitalization
Associated concepts: ante natus

birth

(Emergence of young), noun arrival, childbirth, delivery, nativity, parturition, vivification
Associated concepts: birth certificate, birth control, issue, pretermission
Foreign phrases: Non nasci, et natum mori, paria sunt.Not to be born, and to be born dead, are the same.

birth

(Lineage), noun ancestry, bloodline, derivation, descent, extraction, heredity, heritage, inheritance, line, line of descent, parentage, provenance, succession
Associated concepts: birth certificate, legitimacy
Foreign phrases: Qui in utero est pro jam nato habetur, quoties de ejus commodo quaeritur.He who is in the womb is regarded as already born, whenever a question arises for his benefit.

BIRTH. The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete. 5 C. & P. 329; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 344 6 C. & P. 349; S. C. 25 E. C. L. R. 433.
2. But if a child be killed with design and maliciously after it has wholly come forth from the body of the mother, although still connected with her by means of the umbilical cord, it seems that such killing will be murder. 9 C. & P. 25 S . C. 38 E. C. L. R. 21; 7 C. & P. 814. Vide articles Breath; Dead Born; Gestation; Life; and 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 478, et seq.; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 438; 7 C. & P. 814; 1 Carr. & Marsh. 650; S. C. 41 E. C. L. R. 352; 9 C. & P. 25.
3. It seems that unless the child be born alive, it is not properly a birth, but a carriage. 1 Chit. Pr. 35, note z. But see Russ. & Ry. C. C. 336.

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Finally, work effort variables show that on average, young workers of both genders work more weeks, although fewer work full-time, in the later birth cohort.

Millennials and the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S.: A Cross-Cohort Comparison of Young Workers Born in the 1960s and the 1980s

With regard to birth cohort effects, after adjustments for period and age, a progressive increase in the risk of death for women born between 1955 to 1959 was observed when compared to the reference cohort (1950 to 1954).

Homicides among women in the different Brazilian regions in the last 35 years: an analysis of age-period-birth cohort effects

x] levels within the PARIS birth cohort (26 [micro]g/[m.

Early exposure to traffic-related air pollution, respiratory symptoms at 4 years of age, and potential effect modification by parental allergy, stressful family events, and sex: a prospective follow-up study of the Paris birth cohort

pylori prevalence was highest in the 1950-1959 birth cohort and was lower in the subsequent birth cohorts in both male and female participants.

Decreasing prevalence of Helicobacter pylori according to birth cohorts in urban China

The proportion of LT surgeries performed for HCV-related ESLD among persons in the birth cohort increased from 60.

Trends in liver transplantation in hepatitis C virus-infected persons, United States

As more children are vaccinated, the incidence of carriage, and therefore pneumococcal disease, is expected to decline with each successive birth cohort.

Post-introduction economic evaluation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Ecuador, Honduras, and Paraguay/ Evaluacion economica tras la introduccion de la vacunacion antineumococica conjugada en Ecuador, Honduras y Paraguay

Gallup's historical data allow for a look at how views on marijuana legalization have changed over time among independent samples of those in the same birth cohorts.

In U.S., 58% Back Legal Marijuana Use

Chatzi presented a subanalysis of the Rhea Study, a mother-child birth cohort that began in Crete in 2007 with the aim of investigating the potential risks maternal environment and lifestyle might exert upon offspring--including maternal obesity.

Prepregnancy BMI linked to children's cognition

This New Zealand study examined the associations between duration of breast feeding, early infant growth, and body mass index (BMI) at 30 and 35 years, in a birth cohort studied to age 35.

Breastfeeding, infant growth and BMI at 30 and 35 years

published a study in May 2015 that looked at a large number of children in a birth cohort from the early 1990s.

Vision therapy for learning disorders

In this study, samples of umbilical cord tissue were taken from 237 individuals in the GUSTO Birth Cohort Study and their epigenetic profiles were examined.

Nature and Nurture: Baby's Development is Affected by Genes and Conditions in the Womb

SAN DIEGO -- Antibiotic use prior to 6 months of age was associated with recurrent wheeze but not with allergic sensitization or other clinical allergic outcomes, results from a large birth cohort study demonstrated.