hydramnion

English

Noun

hydramnion (countable and uncountable, plural hydramnions)

1. (medicine, chiefly dated) Polyhydramnios.
   • 1908, British Medical Journal:

     In his case of hydramnion it was situated in the upper ovum in a twin pregnancy. He tapped the upper sac by simple puncture, without making an incision through the parietes.

   • 1933, The New England Journal of Medicine:

     The cause of hydramnion in this case being due to a twisted cord, the procedure could not be expected to offer more than temporary relief.

   • 1946, Charles Joseph McFadden, Medical Ethics for Nurses:

     Among the diseases of the decidua and fetal membranes, the only condition which creates a moral problem is that of hydramnion.

   • 1962, August Pierre Marie Rutten, Oesophageal Atresia: a critical study of the literature and report on sixteen cases:

     It has long been known that hydramnion during pregnancy is relatively often associated with congenital atresia of the digestive tract.

   • 2005, Jose Bajo, Asim Kurjak, Donald School Textbook of Transvaginal Sonography, CRC Press, →ISBN:

     No differences in the appearance and volume of the amniotic fluid were detected, particularly in normally volumed cases, moderate hydramnion or even moderate oligoamnion.