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  • adverb Immediately following birth

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Examples

  • This study found that "numerous neuropathological changes were observed in young adult rats treated postnatally with thimerosal," and that "These findings document neurotoxic effects of thimerosal, at doses equivalent to those used in infant vaccines or higher, in developing rat brain, suggesting likely involvement of this mercurial in neurodevelopmental disorders."

    David Kirby: Government and Many Scientists Agree: Vaccine-Autism Research Should Continue David Kirby 2011

  • This study found that "numerous neuropathological changes were observed in young adult rats treated postnatally with thimerosal," and that "These findings document neurotoxic effects of thimerosal, at doses equivalent to those used in infant vaccines or higher, in developing rat brain, suggesting likely involvement of this mercurial in neurodevelopmental disorders."

    David Kirby: Government and Many Scientists Agree: Vaccine-Autism Research Should Continue David Kirby 2011

  • Peggy McCann, RDCS: So it's important to know if there's other anomalies because it gives a more comprehensive picture to the parents of what this baby's going to behave like postnatally.

    Tetralogy of Fallot — Preparing for your Baby's Delivery 2010

  • Given the complexity of gene expression prenatally and postnatally, variation by racial or ethnic admixture may or may not occur.

    Dan Agin: Black and White in America IV: IQ Myths and Realities 2009

  • Neural synapses begin forming as early as the second month of gestation, peaking in the child's first year of life, and many parts of the brain continue to develop postnatally and even into adulthood.

    Environmental effects on the thyroid 2009

  • But in nearly all these instances, the use of the word is such that it has application only postnatally.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Bringing A Terrorist Suspect From Gitmo to New York Confer Any More Legal Rights? 2009

  • I was worried about other, sleep deprived, postnatally vulnerable people.

    Would you have sex with your husband every day? 2008

  • He thinks, having read the form, that we may need to send four forms in - one for antenatal and postnatal care, one for the gynae care 8 months postnatally, one for the colo-rectal guy, and one for the dermatologist who specialises in vulvas I wish I knew her real job title, I bet it's hilarious! and possibly one for the partridge in the pear tree, and all.

    Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head ailbhe 2006

  • I have my 6-week-postnatal appointment in a week 9 weeks postnatally, but there you go, this stuff was much easier to arrange when I didn't have a toddler and wasn't as picky about doctors so will bring everything up then.

    Summation ai731 2006

  • "The theory is that the sex difference in the sex organs develops early in pregnancy - in the first few months while in utero - while sexual differentiation of the brain occurs later in the second half of pregnancy and postnatally."

    Depression and Sex Zoe Brain 2005

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