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postnatal, a.|pəʊstˈneɪtəl|
[f. post- B. 1 b + natal.]
Subsequent to or occurring after birth. postnatal depression, depression in a woman caused by a recent confinement, characterized by fatigue, irritability, and fits of crying.
a1859De Quincey Posth. Wks. (1891) I. 16 Some far halcyon time, post-natal or ante-natal he knew not. 1866Sankey Lect. Mental Dis. vi. 127 Those whose idiocy depends on post-natal diseases, and especially rickets. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. (1877) I. i. 122 Ideas which cannot be explained by any post-natal experience. 1973Guardian 22 Feb. 13/2 Some 88,000 women a year were recently deemed in need of treatment for postnatal depression. 1978J. Mann Sting of Death viii. 69 Anna Buxton was suffering severely from post-natal depression..a textbook case: Emmy was four months old.
Hence postˈnatalist, one who holds that the divinity of Christ was of postnatal communication; also attrib.; postˈnatally adv., after birth.
1895Haweis in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 599 The Postnatalists admit human parentage on both sides. Ibid. 604 The Prenatalist and Postnatalist theories. 1927Jrnl. Anat. LXI. 321 The two parts of which the foetal suprarenal is composed—the true cortex which persists post-natally and the foetal cortex which atrophies after birth—are generally considered to have a common origin. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Mar. 222/2 The child..contracts the actual disease only when post-natally brought into contact with the specific germ. 1966Ann. Rev. Med. XVII. 221 The inhibition seems to disappear as the animal matures postnatally. |