Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A newborn child, especially one less than one month old.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a baby from birth to four weeks
Etymologies
- neo- + Latin nātus, past participle of nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Elective caesarean section and respiratory morbidity in the term and near-term neonate.”
“Moreover, the use of this time in culture also matches up to brain growth rate in full-term neonate”
“Cytokines and inflammatory response in the fetus and neonate.”
“Unsuspected obstructive fetal neck masses often prove fatal because of an inability to secure an airway and ventilate the neonate, which results in hypoxia and acidosis.”
“The program keeps neonatologists and neonatal healthcare providers up-to-date with the latest therapies used to treat the sick neonate.”
“A shunt infection can be devastating for the neonate or premature infant, especially when it involves gram-negative organisms.”
“So F, who has seen the photographs of himself as a neonate from 1999, is keen to be woken up in time for this one.”
““Separation distress call in the human neonate in the absence of maternal body contact.””
“Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus necrotizing fasciitis in a neonate.”
“American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on the Fetus and Newborn and Section on Surgery and Canadian Pediatric Society and Fetus and Newborn Committee, “Policy statement: prevention and management of pain in the neonate: an update,” Pediatrics 118(5) (2006): 2231-41.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘neonate’.
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phrontistery - n
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life, death, rebirth
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Logolepsy
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ash vocab
flippant, fillip, expiate, explicate, extirpate, facile, florid, fealty, allegiance, fetid, febrile, pert and 134 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, N
nurdled, naumachia, nystagmus, nephology, nigh, noctilucent, noctambulant, nocebo, neap, napiform, nacelle, node and 95 more...
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neo-
new; a new or revived form
neonate, neoconservative, neonatal, neonazi, neohippy, neoclassical, neocene
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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GRE_2
Secret plot
machination, madrigal, neonate, oblique, obstreperous, palliate, pallid, quaint, quandary, ramification, scotch, valedictory and 4 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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stages of life
newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling - A newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old
cherub, baby, little one, infant, tot, yearling, babe in arms, papoose - a very you...newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling, cherub, baby, little one, infant, toddler, tween, adolescent and 21 more...
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word of the days
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