(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.
Grandma
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Grandmamma
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) They even accused him of wanting to pull the plug on grandma .
(3) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(4) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
(5) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(6) Ask every grandma who is standing out there,” said Allard, who owns land where some of the activists have been camped for months.
(7) I don’t think I even listened to them.” In 2013, while Hebden was making the album Beautiful Rewind , his grandma passed away.
(8) We couldn't put on programming that would offend grandma as that might lose us a subscription.
(9) You’ve done more for women in cinema than you take credit for.” Lovely speech, topped with the grace note of Grandma.
(10) The 1992 election, with Clinton competing against America’s grandma Barbara Bush for the role of first lady, is when the national sexist spotlight began to shine.
(11) And that because she came out of Grandma's vagina and so on, it makes that relationship harder, too.
(12) Apart from our scientists, there is a "Lady Robot" (who exists mainly to party), a "Pretzel Girl", a "Diner Waitress" (who will boss you about if you don't agree with her recommendation of which burger is best for you), and "Grandma".
(13) When a black preacher makes sweeping pronouncements about whites, that's clearly racism; when your relative whispers about a stereotype whose roots go back as far as the preacher's rage, well, that's just grandma.
(14) To Be Free, the fourth show from the ex-Grandma’s House man, promises to explore “freedom, joy, love, death, adventure, art, peace, sex, regret, success, eating, suffering, dreaming, healing, forgiving and other areas”.
(15) But, with becoming heavyweight champion of the world comes responsibility, because you’ve got people from kids to grandmas watching you.
(16) Limited care If you remember anything from the 2009 and 2010 Obamacare debates, it's probably the "death panels": the notion that the government is going to restrict care and decide whether grandma lives or dies.
(17) My grandma was running me to the hospital.” Carson, who in some years performed more than 500 pediatric brain surgeries, received the patient.
(18) When asked to namecheck his favourite shows, however, Preston reels off a list of BBC programmes: Sherlock, Simon Amstell's sitcom Grandma's House and Rev, while he "can't wait" for The Apprentice to return.
(19) My grandma, a working-class street trader, would never have tolerated the old-style Glastonbury lavatories.
(20) Grandma got any more medals?” When Monroe, who is from an armed forces family, responded furiously and demanded £5,000 for a migrants’ charity on threat of a libel action, Hopkins deleted the original tweet but followed it up with one asking what the difference was between “irritant Penny and social anthrax Monroe”.