A child born before completing at least 37 weeks of gestation is:

A) a spontaneous abortion.
B) a stillbirth.
C) gravida.
D) premature.


D) premature.
Correct. A child born before completing 37 weeks of gestation is premature. A
spontaneous abortion is unplanned loss of a pregnancy due to the death of the embryo or fetus
before it is viable. Stillbirth is a birth in which a viable-aged fetus dies shortly before or at the
time of delivery. -gravida is a suffix meaning "pregnant woman."

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