(n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.
(n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.
(n.) Same as Infante.
(a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.
(a.) Intended for young children; as, an infant school.
(v. t.) To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(2) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(3) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(4) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(5) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(6) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(7) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(8) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
(9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
(10) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(11) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
(12) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
(13) Results showed significantly higher cardiac output in infants with grade III shunting than in infants with grade 0 and grade I shunting.
(14) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(15) We have studied 166 healthy children (36 newborn infants, 34 infants aged 1-12 months, 15 aged 1-2 years, 15 children aged 2-4 years, 11 aged 4-6 years and 55 aged 6-12 years); 20 adults were also examined.
(16) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(17) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
(18) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
(19) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
(20) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
Infanta
Definition:
(n.) A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of the protestors carried signs supporting the judge, José Castro, who had decided to summon the infanta, praising him for taking on a corruption investigation widely seen as untouchable.
(2) In 1986 and 1988 two pregnancies occurred with normal gestation outcome; however, the two births were premature (35 weeks) with hypotrophic infantas (2.160 and 2.080 kg).
(3) Virginia López Negrete, a lawyer for Manos Limpias, (Clean Hands) the activist group that filed a criminal complaint against the infanta, spoke eagerly of the chance to ask her questions, saying she had been looking forward to this day for years.
(4) I will answer only my lawyer,” said the Infanta Cristina, who denies being an accessory to tax evasion .
(5) The legal change has pitted brother against sister in many families, including that of the Spanish Nobles Association secretary, Miguel Temboury, whose family are counts of Labajos and Las Infantas.
(6) At the centre of the scandal is the king's son-in-law Iñaki Urdangarin, a former Olympic-medal-winning handball player who became the Duke of Palma after marrying Juan Carlos's sporty daughter, the infanta Cristina.
(7) Other members of the royal family do not have immunity and the king's youngest daughter, the Infanta Cristina, is being investigated on charges of tax fraud and money laundering relating to the business activities of her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
(8) Located on Plaza Mayor, the Hotel Infanta Isabel has 37 rooms, almost all of which feature windows that open out onto the main square and across the beautiful spires and rooftops of the city.
(9) The infanta stepped into court nearly two years to the day after her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, first did so.
(10) A relaxed Infanta Cristina stepped out of the car, smiling at the 10 police officers who lined her path and nodding hello to the hundreds of journalists crammed behind them.
(11) The performance of the Haloscale "Infanta" respirometer has been assessed in vitro using ISO test compliances and resistances, and in vivo by comparison with pneumotachograph volumes in 13 spontaneously breathing children and 13 children during intermittent positive pressure ventilation.
(12) The Official Journal of the state will ... publish a royal decree by which His Majesty the King will revoke the use of the title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca by Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina,” the palace said in a statement on 11 June.
(13) Some of the money was laundered, investigators allege, through a shell company that the infanta co-owned with her husband, a former Olympic handball player.
(14) The Infanta Cristina, the sister of the king of Spain , has appeared in court on the Balearic island of Mallorca to face charges of tax evasion, the first time a member of the royal family has been arraigned.