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US
/ˌnioʊˈneɪtəɫ/
]
[ UK /nˈiːəʊnˌeɪtəl/ ]
[ UK /nˈiːəʊnˌeɪtəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth
the neonatal period
neonatal care
How To Use neonatal In A Sentence
- The results of two recent studies have demonstrated an association between postneonatal mortality and particulate air pollution.
- As developmental paediatrician to a neonatal referral centre she followed many low birthweight children with great skill.
- Robertson RT, Gallardo KA, Claytor KJ, Ha DH, Ku KH, et al. (1998) Neonatal treatment with 192 IgG-saporin produces long-term forebrain cholinergic deficits and reduces dendritic branching and spine density of neocortical pyramidal neurons. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- A neonatal intensive care nurse will accompany the resident, as well as an intern.
- Erythema toxicum neonatorum, transient neonatal pustular melanosis, sucking blister, miliaria, and mongolian spots are among the many benign skin conditions that can occur in newborns.
- Elastin synthesis is increased during the canalicular and saccular stage of fetal development and reaches a peak during alveolarization in the neonatal stage.
- In pregnant women with untreated early syphilis, 25% of pregnancies result in stillbirth and 14% in neonatal death – an overall perinatal mortality of about 40%.
- In the homestretch to 2015, we see the momentum continuing to build, especially to combat maternal and neonatal mortality, another item on your agenda.
- Patients who develop pre-eclampsia at near term are at low risk of maternal and neonatal morbidity.
- More than half (57.8%) of the women who died and one-third (33.7%) of those who experienced a perinatal death (i.e. a stillbirth or early neonatal death) had sought skilled attendance.