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amniocentesis

medical procedure used primarily in prenatal diagnoses of chromosomal abnormalities and fetal infections
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amniocentesis

Summary

amniocentesis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (780 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • amniocentesis is a type of cytopathology[2].
  • amniocentesis is a type of body fluid sampling[3].
  • amniocentesis is a type of prenatal testing[4].
  • amniocentesis's Commons category is recorded as Amniocentesis[5].
  • amniocentesis's facet of is recorded as women's health[6].
  • amniocentesis's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C52009[7].
  • amniocentesis's different from is recorded as amnioscopy[8].
  • amniocentesis's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[9].
  • amniocentesis's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/amniocentesis[10].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include cytopathology[2], body fluid sampling[3], and prenatal testing[4].

Why It Matters

amniocentesis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (780 views/month).[1] amniocentesis has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] amniocentesis is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

women's health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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