A rare medical term, possibly referring to a procedure involving or analysis of amniotic fluid or membrane.
Constructed from amnio- (amnion) plus Greek -clepsis (from kleptein, 'to steal' or 'to take'). Likely an obsolete or never-standardized medical term for extraction or examination.
Some medical terms were invented but never caught on—amnioclepsis may have been proposed for amniocentesis (the needle procedure) but lost out to clearer terminology.
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