the death of woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes. (Department of Health)
a terrible way to die, be it bleeding to death due to an unsafe abortion or agonising in the convulsions of toxaemia or obstructive labour
The death of a woman resulting from pregnancy or childbearing, while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy.
A death due to complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium.
Death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration or site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.
The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of the termination of pregnancy, regardless of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management. Direct maternal deaths, a subset of all maternal deaths, are those resulting from obstetric complications of the pregnant state (pregnancy, labour and puerperium), from interventions, omissions, incorrect treatment, or a chain of events resulting from any of the above. They are complications of the pregnancy itself.
Maternal death, or maternal mortality, also "obstetric death" is the death of a woman in relation to a pregnancy. In 2000, the United Nations estimated global maternal mortality at 529,000, of which less than 1% occurred in the developed world. However, most of these deaths have been medically preventable for decades, because treatments to avoid such deaths have been well known since the 1950s.