(n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
(n.) A small image of an infant; a doll.
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.
(v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(3) When an expression vector containing plasminogen cDNA is transfected into baby hamster kidney cells, the number of drug-resistant colonies as well as the levels of plasminogen secreted by those colonies is lower than observed in similar transfections of other protease precursor genes.
(4) Antibodies by the papain method were detected 41 of the women at the time of delivery (22 Rh-positive babies and 19 Rh-negative ones).
(5) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
(6) A longitudinal study of iron deficiency and of psychomotor development was carried out in 147 children followed between the ages of 10 months and 4 years in 2 well-baby out-patient clinics in Paris area.
(7) While an abnormal birth may result in minimal brain damage this is not necessarily the significant factor, as a separation of mother and baby in the immediate neonatal period, Which usually follows an abnormal birth, may be of more relevance.
(8) Nearly 69% of the women with ectopic pregnancy had delivered two or more babies previously, and the post-ectopic pregnancy conception rate was 19.54%.
(9) There it was found she was not carrying twins but her baby remained in hospital for some weeks with respiratory problems.
(10) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(11) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
(12) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
(13) Midwives are facing increasing pressure with chronic staff shortages, the ongoing baby boom and increasing numbers of complications in pregnancy.
(14) The proportion of women initiating breastfeeding – when a mother either puts her baby to the breast within 48 hours of birth or the baby is given any of the mother's breast milk – had been rising by about one percentage point a year between 2004 and 2010-11.
(15) A total of 131 (14%) babies received opioids out of 933 neonates admitted to the unit.
(16) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(17) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
(18) Nine of 34 newborns of mothers with PPT were thrombocytopenic; there was no correlation between mother's and baby's platelet counts.
(19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(20) No correction needs to be made for gestational age if the baby is born after the 34th week of gestation.
Babyish
Definition:
(a.) Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Drawing on McArthur and Baron's (1983) ecological theory of social perception, the present research examined younger and older children's ability to differentiate male and female adults who varied in the babyishness of their facial appearance.
(2) Don't get me wrong, babies are great (mostly), but no adult wants their skin to be all babyish and squidgy.
(3) Konrad Lorenz first suggested in 1943 that certain physical and behavioral characteristics common to infants (babyishness) serve as cues to attract adult attention and care as well as to decrease the likelihood of aggression.
(4) Speech addressed to retarded adults was similar in numerous ways to the speech addressed to 6-year-olds; in some ways (e.g., repetitiveness), it was even more babyish.
(5) He clearly feels thwarted and unheard: hence his compulsive letter-writing to ministers , and babyish obsession with his own comfort.
(6) We found weak evidence that babyishness reduces anger.
(7) I can barely imagine anything more babyish than thinking he should – except perhaps the notion that Lineker can’t analyse Leicester-Crystal Palace tomorrow.