An obstetrical subspecialist
concerned with the care of the
mother and fetus at higher-than-normal risk for
complications. Since the
perinatal period, depending on the definition, starts at
the 20th to 28th
week
of gestation and ends 1 to 4 weeks after birth, a
perinatologist logically
could be a obstetrician or pediatrician but, in practice,
a perinatologist
is
an obstetrician. The comparable area of pediatrics is
neonatology. A
high-risk
baby might be cared for by a perinatologist before birth
and by a
neonatologist after birth. The word "perinatologist" is a
linguistic
sandwich
of the Greek "peri-" meaning "around or about", "natal"
from the Latin
"natus"
meaning "born" and "ologist" from the Greek "logos" meaning
"student of."
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