amniotic fluid

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăm′-nē-ŏ′-tĭk flo͞o′-ĭd
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæm.niˈɑ.tɪk ˈflu.ɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

amniotic fluid (countable and uncountable, plural amniotic fluids)

1. (zoology) In placental mammals, a fluid contained within the amnion membrane that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus.

Synonyms

• water, waters (among humans)

Derived terms

• amniotic fluid embolism

Translations

fluid that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus

• Arabic: سُخْد m (suḵd), سَائِل سَلْوِيّ m (sāʔil salwiyy), سَائِل سَابِيَائِيّ m (sāʔil sābiyāʔiyy), سَائِل أَمْنِيُوتِيّ m (sāʔil ʔamniyūtiyy)
• Asturian: líquidu amniótico m
• Catalan: líquid amniòtic m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羊水 (joeng⁴ seoi²)

  Mandarin: 羊水 (zh) (yángshuǐ)

• Czech: plodová voda, amniální tekutina f
• Danish: fostervand (da) n
• Dutch: vruchtwater (nl) n
• Faroese: vatn (fo) n
• Finnish: lapsivesi (fi) (humans), vedet (fi) pl
• French: liquide amniotique (fr) m
• Georgian: ამნიონური სითხე (amnionuri sitxe), სანაყოფე წყლები (sanaq̇ope c̣q̇lebi), წყლები (c̣q̇lebi)
• German: Fruchtwasser (de) n, Amnionflüssigkeit f
• Icelandic: legvatn n
• Ido: amnioto (io)
• Inuktitut: ᓄᑕᕋᒃᓴᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ (notaraksaop imanga)
• Italian: acque (it) f pl
• Japanese: 羊水 (ja) (yousui)
• Javanese: banyu kawah
• Korean: 양수 (ko) (yangsu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şileya seravê f

• Latin: liquor amnii m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fostervann n

• Polish: wody płodowe f, płyn owodniowy m
• Portuguese: líquido amniótico m
• Romagnol: acv f pl
• Romanian: lichid amniotic (ro) n
• Russian: о̀колопло́дная жи́дкость f (òkoloplódnaja žídkostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пло̏дова во̀да f, амнѝонска те̏чно̄ст f

  Latin: plȍdova vòda f, amnìonska tȅčnōst f

• Spanish: agua del amnios f
• Swedish: fostervatten (sv) n
• Tagalog: sanggalang tubig
• Ukrainian: амніоти́чна рідина́ f (amniotýčna ridyná), плодо́ві во́ди f (plodóvi vódy), навколоплі́дні во́ди f pl (navkoloplídni vódy)
• Vietnamese: nước ối