(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.
Foundling
Definition:
(v. t.) A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(2) His work inspired a new generation in the 20th century: ordinary people of my father’s generation, men such as Philip Ashurst, a Coram hospital foundling and later shop steward, who was introduced to radicalism by Ruskin’s writings .
(3) B., Foundling, S. I., Hoover, D. J., & Blundell, T. L. (1989) EMBO J.
(4) The groups of population under monitoring included: individuals without hepatic illness just after admittance into hospitals (these groups were found to be adequately representative of the corresponding open population), groups of children and boys from the open school population, individuals living in various communities (foundling hospital, children college, recruits, institutionalized old people, subnormal individuals and their assistance staff), non-assistance working categories (workers from metallurgical and chemical industries, shipped seamen), hospital assistance personnel, dialyzed and transplanted renal patients, blood donors.
(5) The video, above, is partly set to an anthem written by composer George Frideric Handel for the charity, and includes historic drawings of foundling children by artist William Hogarth.
(6) Here is the story of a foundling within our epidermis, yet outside our pathologist's daily view.
(7) As well as patronage from Hogarth and Handel, the Foundling Hospital was supported by Charles Dickens.
(8) Since the patient was a foundling it was impossible to prove FMF, despite the typical signs and the successful treatment.
(9) At the very least, age-size tables based on parental statures would be more realistic and useful for children of known parentage, whereas present-day averages that neglect parental size are most applicable to foundlings and illegitimate children.
(10) On 17 October 1739, King George II signed a royal charter for the creation of the Foundling Hospital, London, after a 19-year-long campaign by philanthropist Thomas Coram to create a home for abandoned children.
(11) The charity is celebrating by projecting an animated video onto the wall of its building in Bloomsbury, the original site of the Foundling Hospital.
(12) In all societies it has been easier for richer than poorer people to implement population control measures whether these measures be abortion, foundling home placement, or more modern methods of contraception.
(13) As general hospitals, they rendered a variety of pediatric services to sick children, including the idiotic and hopelessly crippled, and the newborns delivered in the maternity wards; and they tendered services for well children, such as foundlings, abandoned children, and the children of destitute parents, placing infants in foster homes and indenturing older children for training in various trades and crafts.