Foetal pain?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 647-655

  Derbyshire, Stuart W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; Awareness; Consciousness; Development; Foetal; Human; Nociception; Pain; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL FUNCTIONS; FETAL PAIN; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION;

EID: 79951679446     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2010.02.013     Document Type: Review

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