Amniocentesis is a technique of foetal sex determination based on the pattern of chromosome in the amniotic fluid surrounding the developing embryo. A statutory ban has been imposed on this to stop its misuse and therefore to check the increasing cases of female foeticides resulting in the imbalance of sex ratio in human population. It is so called because it is basically a technique of investigating the genetic and metabolic disorders if any of the fetuses by taking out a small quantity of amniotic fluid.
