Organism Attribute
apgar score
Subclass of:
Physical Examination
Definitions related to apgar score:
  • A method, developed by Dr. Virginia Apgar, to evaluate a newborn's adjustment to extrauterine life. Five items - heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color - are evaluated 60 seconds after birth and again five minutes later on a scale from 0-2, 0 being the lowest, 2 being normal. The five numbers are added for the Apgar score. A score of 0-3 represents severe distress, 4-7 indicates moderate distress, and a score of 7-10 predicts an absence of difficulty in adjusting to extrauterine life.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The numerical sum between zero and ten that is computed from individual values of zero to two that are assigned to five different areas of interest in newborn screenings. These areas are breathing, muscle tone, pulse rate, reflex irritability and skin color.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The Apgar score is used as a part of early assessment of a newborn. A score of 0, 1, or 2 is assigned to each of the 5 physical signs at 1 and 5 minutes after birth.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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