neonataladj.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈneɪtl/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈneɪdl/ 1. Of, relating to, affecting, or designating newborn (or recently born) humans or animals.
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neonatal1894
1894 A. Duane Student's Dict. Med. 425/1 Neonatal, of or pertaining to the new-born.
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Mar. 721/1 Chapters on antenatal in relation to postnatal and neonatal pathology.
1936 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 113 The author deals in turn with pre-natal, neo-natal and infantile behaviour.
1955 Penguin New Biol. 18 42 A few cases are known where heterozygotes seem to be less fit than homozygotes. The most striking is that of severe neonatal anaemia in man.
1960 Guardian 23 Mar. 6/5 Neonatal crying..in the first weeks of life.
1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. c15/5 (advt.) A progressive..general hospital currently undergoing a dynamic expansion inclusive of a neo natal intensive care unit.
1984 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Aug. 480/2 Neonatal screening should become mandatory for the population at risk.
1993 B. Moyers Healing & Mind i. 3 Cindy Wheeler is a neonatal nurse.
2001 High Plains Jrnl. 16 Apr. a2/1 Coronavirus causes one of the most severe viral diarrheas of neonatal calves.
2. Designating or relating to the period just after birth.In Medicine, usually defined as the first four weeks of life.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 304/1 The causes of the high death-rate among infants, whether due to ante-natal, intra-natal, or neo-natal conditions, come under..observation.
1937 Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Child. 54 1215 Tetany of the new-born..may occur at any time during the neo~natal period.
1958 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 21 June 937/2 Infant deaths..may be divided into two groups—deaths of infants in the neonatal period (under 28 days) and those in the postneonatal period (28 days to one year).
1989 Psychiatric Devel. 7 249 In the Norway rat, T masculinizes social play in females when given in the early neonatal period.
Derivatives
neoˈnatally adv. soon after birth; in the neonatal period.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adverb] > after birth
greenly1562
post-natally1916
neonatally1945
1945 K. Davis in Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 237 140 Puerperal fatality increases sharply when the infant is either stillborn or dies neonatally.
1973 Animal Behaviour 21 300/1 Neonatally castrated males showed an increase in percentage of maternal nests.
1990 Lancet 26 May 1288/2 He was breast fed, well, normoglycaemic, and not ketonuric neonatally.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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