What's the difference between infant and kid?

Infant


Definition:

  • (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.

Kid


Definition:

  • (n.) A young goat.
  • (n.) A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.
  • (n.) A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
  • (n.) Gloves made of kid.
  • (n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth a young goat.
  • (n.) A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
  • (p. p.) of Kythe.
  • (v. t.) See Kiddy, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (2) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (3) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
  • (4) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
  • (5) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (6) ‘Many of our kids become radicalized at some point’ – that’s what the government wants to hear, that’s what these folks want to hear.
  • (7) But I think this isn’t a problem only kids face – we’ve become a country of trashy readers.
  • (8) Now, people observe and see if the kids are OK. Based on that, they come around.” Growing acceptance came too late for 15-year-old Musu Allieu, whose parents both died of Ebola.
  • (9) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
  • (10) "I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
  • (11) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
  • (12) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
  • (13) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
  • (14) This study addresses the use and appraisal of services by parents at the KIDS Family Centre, Camden, London, which offers a variety of family-focused services with differing degrees of parental involvement.
  • (15) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
  • (16) My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school.
  • (17) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
  • (18) Kid can play #sb47 @ lengeldavid @ gdnussports February 4, 2013 No doubt about it.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (20) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.

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