(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.
Infanticide
Definition:
(n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
(n.) One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) Males who developed in utero between two female fetuses, and were thus exposed to relatively low testosterone concentrations during fetal development, were significantly more likely to exhibit infanticide--both before and after mating--than were males who developed between two male fetuses.
(3) Hamster litters were left undisturbed till day 7 to minimise infanticide.
(4) This suggests that the maintenance of the suppression of infanticide in mothers owes something to the special circumstances of lactation other than continued exposure to young.
(5) It is suggested that either legislation should be amended to prohibit abortion after 18 to 20 weeks, or abortion to full term should be permitted and the possibility of legislation for infanticide be envisaged.
(6) Historic episodes of mass infanticide and practices in other cultures, while often cited as warnings of moral peril, are difficult to apply to the problem of infant euthanasia.
(7) A case is here described in which a woman was convicted of infanticide, and attempted infanticide, having been charged with murder and attempted murder.
(8) Virtually all adult wild males exhibited infanticide when they were tested in their home cages (with either a 2-day-old or 7-day-old pup) or when they were placed into the cages of lactating wild female mice and their 2-day-old young.
(9) Although attacks by females rarely thwarted infanticide by male intruders, the behavior may acutely protect parental investment.
(10) Infanticide could be important to curb recent and future population growth and the resulting pressure on the land.
(11) The data essentially show that, in a house mouse population, there is a behavioral polymorphism in response to the coexisting multiple mechanisms which mediate the inhibition of infanticide.
(12) This was the most important impulse for the development of the legal medicine in Germany as the courts now found themselves constrained to hear physicians, barber surgeons or midwives in cases of abortion, infanticidal, poisoning, murder or manslaughter.
(13) Virtually all wild males exhibit infanticide prior to mating, but virrually all wild males were inhibited from exhibiting infanticide 3 weeks after mating whether they were placed into the cage of their former mate and her litter or into the cage of an unfamiliar female and her litter, similar to the effect of mating on the behavior of CF-1 male mice toward young.
(14) The hypothesis, advanced by Asch (Mt Sinai J Med NY 35:214-220, 1968), that a majority of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases are actually infanticides, is addressed by examination of age comparable infant homicide rates (United States, 1950-1974) and consideration of current theory regarding SIDS pathogenesis.
(15) Infant mortality through infanticide was recorded in undisturbed and tested hamsters.
(16) It is proposed, therefore, that this psychosis is in fact, in most instances, a form of ergotism and its signs and symptoms and consequences, including coincidental infanticide, themselves are actually manifestations of acute ergot poisoning.
(17) Finally, 35% of sows that produced cubs ceased lactation early, and this loss of entire litters was thought to be due to infanticide by dominant sows.
(18) The socio-sexual factors mediating the inhibition of pup-killing in previously infanticidal Swiss Webster male mice (Mus domesticus) were examined.
(19) Five percent of the sample ultimately committed suicide, and the probable incidence of infanticide was 4%.
(20) Identifiable incidents include infanticide, injury, deliberate neglect, neglect due to ignorance and poverty, and accidents or poisonings where abuse appears to have been a factor.