Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a newborn infant or to the first 28 days of an infant's life.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the new-born; of recent birth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective of or pertaining to a neonate.
  • adjective newly born; recently born.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the period of time immediately following birth, or to the newborn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth

Etymologies

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neo- +‎ natal.

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Examples

  • What she is experiencing is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Nuclear factor-kappaB activation in neonatal mouse lung protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation.

    Recent Neonatal Research Publications 2010

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

  • What she is experiencing is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

  • Some died (the three-year-old and the 75-year-old man) and some were physically injured (the child's mother and the seven-month fetus she was carrying -- the baby is still in neonatal intensive care) and some were terribly psychologically scarred.

    It may not be a trend, but it does happen 2010

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