What's the difference between infancy and infanthood?
Infancy
Definition:
(n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.
(n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.
(n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
(4) Interferon alfa-2a appears to induce the early regression of life-threatening corticosteroid-resistant hemangiomas of infancy.
(5) The excellent short-term results favor the continued application of anatomical repair of TGA with intact ventricular septum in infancy.
(6) The combination of spectroscopy and imaging, still in its infancy, may prove important in this aspect.
(7) Evidence suggests that this lesion is probably a common cause of chronic epilepsy in adults and that often it is probably the result of a severe febrile convulsion in infancy.
(8) Identification of depression in stroke patients and the implications for care interventions are in their infancy.
(9) Antiandrogen therapy for androgen-induced baldness is in its infancy.
(10) The relationship between extreme temperament in infancy and clinical status at 4.7 years of age was studied in temperamentally different groups of infants matched for sex and SES, and subselected from a large birth cohort representative of the general population.
(11) In infancy, focal-unilateral convulsions and infantile spasms were frequently associated with organic damages.
(12) The presence of antiproteases in human milk provided during early infancy may serve to inhibit the absorption of intact proteases, limiting their entry into the portal circulation.
(13) Hereditary tyrosinemia type I presents with either acute hepatic failure in the neonatal period or later in infancy with progressive liver dysfunction secondary to cirrhosis.
(14) Fifteen children who fulfilled the criteria of chronic non-specific diarrhea of infancy were evaluated for intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
(15) During the newborn and suckling age periods the spleen is projected in three regions: in the epigastrum, in the left subcostal and in the left lateral areas of the abdomen, and during early infancy--only in the left subcostal and in the left lateral area of the abdomen.
(16) Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) studies showed that IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house dust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus and bovine beta-lactoglobulin were significantly elevated in the sera of infants who died as a result of the sudden death in infancy syndrome (SDIS).
(17) Fibrous hamartoma of infancy (FHI) is a rare, self-limiting, benign tumor that occurs in the early years of life.
(18) This diminution of skinfold thickness is more pronounced at the trunk (SIL and SCA) than at the limbs (TRI), indicating a change in distribution of subcutaneous tissue during infancy.
(19) The paper ends by citing the advantages Infancy as a developmental period has in providing reference points for the understanding of cohesion within development.
(20) We assume that PNETs in early infancy are characterized by a particularly wide range of differentiation patterns.
Infanthood
Definition:
(n.) Infancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no cure, so Jessica will die in infanthood, potentially quite quickly if she develops breathing problems.
(2) The findings in one cranium were dubious and could both be regarded as a congenital malformation or an infection in infanthood.