postpartum refers to the time after a baby is born. Postpartum refers to the mother.
See: antepartum and intrapartum.
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haemoglobin – substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
autoantibody – abnormal antibodies produced against the body’s own tissues.
base – (also called nucleotide) – the building blocks in DNA that form amino acids. There are four bases represented by the letters A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytosine) and G (guanine). In RNA the T is replaced by U (uricil).
viral load – the amount of virus in a sample of blood or other fluid. With HIV this is commonly the amount of HIV in a millilitre (mL) of blood. See viral load test.