(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.
Cherub
Definition:
(n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.
(n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.
(n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.
(n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
Example Sentences:
(1) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
(2) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(3) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.
(4) Golovkin, without so much as a blemish on his cherubic visage, continued to mete out punishment.
(5) This article describes the 21-year follow-up of a patient with cherubism and briefly reviews the pertinent literature.
(6) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
(7) A rare disorder involving primarily the maxillary region of the face, cherubism has a special place in the galaxy of osteolytic maxillary tumors.
(8) A family with autosomal dominant cherubism is described.
(9) Cherubism is a rare, fibroosseous lesion of the jaws that may have orbital manifestations of proptosis, lower eyelid retraction, superior globe displacement, and visual loss.
(10) We herein report on four patients with Noonan syndrome, all of whom had cherubism.
(11) A father and mother are still typically presented as the desirable norm for family life: usually portrayed laughing along with a couple of smiling, cherubic offspring.
(12) Photograph: Altitude Anton Yelchin: actor of cherubic charm who inspired huge affection | Peter Bradshaw Read more Yelchin, a fluent Russian speaker, was eager to speak about Russian literature, to which he said he felt connected, to its “mood, the emotional nature … The things I read in Crime and Punishment,” he continued, “I don’t know if it’s because it’s Russian, or because it’s Dostoevsky and everyone reads him and says ‘Holy fucking shit!’, but in terms of being proud of a cultural heritage, that’s what I’m proud of.
(13) The bilateral character of the lesions in this last patient led us to evoke the diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism and cherubism.
(14) Cherubism is a benign hereditary giant-cell lesion of the mandibular and maxillary spongiosa which appears during childhood between the age of 2 and 5 years and progresses until puberty when it spontaneously regresses.
(15) A case of cherubism of the mandible with an atypical history and with the onset of the facial deformity delayed until after puberty has been reported.
(16) Cherubism is a very rare, inherited autosomal-dominant disease, affecting mostly the mandible.
(17) Three cases of cherubism not previously recorded in the literature are described.
(18) A classification for cherubism is proposed and the difficulty in diagnosis of unilateral cases is discussed.
(19) Homogenous bone grafts were used in 20 cases including cysts, nonunions, an open bite, an ameloblastoma, fibrous dysplasia, and cherubism.
(20) But the fact that half of the country were trying to match-make a 21-year-old stretched cherub and that middle-aged lothario in the first place is pretty upsetting.