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  • noun Plural form of amniocentesis.

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Examples

  • In a series of 8,000 amniocenteses done in Bombay, India, 7,999 unborn girl babies and one boy baby were killed.

    Reporter-Times.com Top Stories 2009

  • The amniotic fluid of the control group came from amniocenteses for genetic screenings or analyses to check fetal lung maturity and showed no signs of bacteria even by DNA methods.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • "It has decreased the number of CVS and amniocenteses that I do by 30 percent," Philipson said.

    NewsNet5.com - Local News 2009

  • And we didn’t even need sonograms or amniocenteses along the way to tell us that it would be awesome – we just, like, knew – and now here it is and we are just STOKED.

    Havin’ My Baby | Her Bad Mother 2009

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