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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Examples
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What she is experiencing is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Nuclear factor-kappaB activation in neonatal mouse lung protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation.
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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.
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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.
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What she is experiencing is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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