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- noun Plural form of
perinate .
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"This committee will support the health departments and facilitate development of strategies that determine the causes and the preventable factors that lead to deaths of pregnant women, perinates and infants under the age of five," said departmental spokeswoman Charity Bhengu.
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Although some Carthaginian perinates 'bones were barely charred-and thus their exposure to heat minimal
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jeffrey H. Schwartz et al. 2010
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Consequently, when an urn contained nearly complete skeletons, multiple duplicates but little associated skeletal remains, or a single duplicated element amidst the relatively complete remains of one or two perinates, we could infer with confidence that if individuals had been dealt with separately, such attention did not persist beyond cremation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jeffrey H. Schwartz et al. 2010
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