单词 | paranatal |
释义 | paranataladj. Medicine. Originally: designating the period comprising all of fetal life, the time of birth, and the early neonatal period (now rare or disused). Later: near or around the time of birth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth > before or after birth paranatal1940 perinatal1944 1940 F. Schreiber in Jrnl. Pediatrics 16 297 (heading) Neurologic sequelae of paranatal asphyxia. [Note] The term paranatal has been coined to designate the entire period of fetal life, the period of birth, and the neonatal period within which the results of occurrences during the first two periods may become manifest. 1954 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 19 June 719/1 Proponents of the brain injury hypothesis state that in most cases anoxia during the prenatal and paranatal periods has resulted in brain damage. 1964 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 139 357 (heading) Pre- and paranatal factors in mental disorders of children. 1971 C. B. Courville Birth & Brain Damage xi. 197 (caption) Gliosis, the most significant tissue reaction in paranatal anoxia. 1976 Word 27 62 The developing human foetus..is ‘practicing’, in amniotic fluid, those neuromuscular gestures which will lead, in air, to paranatal cry and neonatal cry specifically. 1984 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 46 446/2 Para-natal emotional adjustment: a prospective investigation of 165 women. 1989 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. A. 92 619 This suggests that the incipient homeothermic metabolic response before paranatal life may be attributed to thyroid development. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1940 |
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