live birth

noun

: a birth of a living child or animal

Examples of live birth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But a breakdown by patient age, buried in the supplemental material, shows that for 12 patients who were age 39, the live birth rate was less than 10%. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026

Its narration presents pregnancy as a societal ideal, while noting that a live birth depends on a monthslong chain of events going just right. — Katherine Pukinskis, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

The vast majority of those cases involved a live birth where the mother was suspected of using drugs, but in a rising minority of cases since Dobbs, people are also being criminalized for pregnancy loss. — Amy Littlefield, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026

While many studies report improvements in sperm quality, there isn’t enough evidence yet to confirm whether CoQ10 increases the chances of pregnancy or live birth. — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 29 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for live birth

• afterbirth
• berth
• dearth
• earth
• firth
• girth
• mirth
• worth
• childbirth
• rebirth
• stillbirth
• tamworth

Medical Definition

live birth

noun

ˈlīv- 

: birth in such a state that processes of life are manifested after the emergence of the whole body : birth of a live fetus compare stillbirth