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Nature of fetal adaptation to the uterine environment: a problem of sensory deprivation
- Source :
- American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 83:800-808
- Publication Year :
- 1962
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1962.
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Abstract
- 0 B S T E T R I c I A N s are concerned with fetal cardiovascular physiology whenever they listen to a fetal heart. The problem is to distinguish between “normal” and “distress” situations. With knowledge only of the physiology of the adult as a guide, it is little wonder that reliable criteria of fetal distress are not readily available. The purpose of this paper is to set forth the character of fetal cardiovascular control and to provide a basis for the interpretation of it. With this new concept in mind, the problems of intrauterine fetal life and of neonatal adjustments after birth come more clearly into view. With the fetus in utero, attention focuses on the effects of the loss of gravitational pull on the body. The more fundamental question involved is the basic physiology of antigravity mechanisms upon the body. From this \;iewpoint, the entire spectrum of the consequences of weightIessness on the organism may be seen. Then evidence affirming the broad concept of sensory deprivation in general upon the body, and of antigrakrity deprivation in particular, may be looked for. In their book, Kybunetics of N&u,-al Systems,’ D. and K. Stanley-Jones establish a case for the concept that physiologic systems which are in a state of dynamic equilibrium-as are all living things---arc under the control of built-in mechanisms
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Fetus
business.industry
Uterus
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Environment
medicine.disease
Adaptation, Physiological
humanities
Surgery
Cardiovascular physiology
Wonder
Distress
medicine
Fetal distress
Humans
Female
Sensory deprivation
Sensory Deprivation
Adaptation
Set (psychology)
business
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00029378
- Volume :
- 83
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68df539bc91b98476fbb7a1638707aef