Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to newborn infants or an infant: neonatal care; neonatal disorders.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to the new-born; of recent birth.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the period of time immediately following birth, or to the newborn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or pertaining to a neonate.
- adj. newly born; recently born.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth
Etymologies
- neo- + natal. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.”
“What she is experiencing is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.”
“Nuclear factor-kappaB activation in neonatal mouse lung protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation.”
“Computer-related medication errors in neonatal intensive care units.”
“Crombleholme TM, Adzick NS, Hardy K, Longaker MT, Duncan BW, Harrison MR: Pulmonary lobar transplantation in neonatal swine: A model for treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.”
“Marissa and her husband Rick were reassured by the excellence and compassion of the doctors and nurses who cared for Alex during those crucial nine days in neonatal intensive care.”
“Crombleholme TM, Adzick NS, Hardy K, Longaker MT, Duncan BW, Harrison MR: Pulmonary lobar transplantation in neonatal swine: A model for the treatment of diaphragmatic hernia.”
“Crombleholme TM, Adzick NS, Longaker MT, Duncan BW, Harrison MR: Reduced size lung transplantation in neonatal swine: Technique and short-term physiologic response.”
“CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mothers taking antidepressants during the last trimester of pregnancy may put their newborns at risk for a condition some call neonatal behavioral syndrome says a new report.”
“Upon arrival, her assessment of the foal was that it was starting a disorder called neonatal maladjustment syndrome; plainly stated, this was a dummy foal.”
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