(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.
Spittle
Definition:
(n.) See Spital.
(v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.
(n.) A small sort of spade.
(n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.
Example Sentences:
(1) We wish to thank Consultants from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, The Middlesex Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital, who allowed us access to their patients; Mr. D. Garfield Davies, Dr. M. F. Spittle, Mr. D. Winstock, Mr. H. P. Cook, Professor H. C. Killey and Mr. L. W. Kay.
(2) But he can further disprove Gilbert's four-year-old spittle.
(3) All this, flecked with varying amounts of spittle, is recounted as fact on the net and in US papers.
(4) For group B patients, detecting this marker positiveness of 71.5% patients in serum and none in spittle.
(5) The treatment needs of the subjects was monitored too and the amount of Streptococco mutans in 6 years old schoolchildren, using spittle drawning, was investigated.
(6) Seventeen patients separated in two groups were treated for same: A) (10) positiveness of reply marker in serum, and negative for spittle.
(7) You could almost see the spittle flying from his lips,” Ludlam said.
(8) Finally, 27.9% reported swallowing the substance or spittle, suggesting the need for further research on the potential health implications of this behavior.
(9) The next day I was hauled into the head’s office to be read a spittle-flecked diatribe about how a particular parent felt Thatcher “saved this country from the Argentinians”, and they did not send their child to my school to be “indoctrinated by trendy lefty teachers”.
(10) The analysis of the spittle samples drawned in 6 years old schoolchildren points out high levels of Streptococcus mutans as regard those collected in other similar studies achieved by our Department.
(11) "The only difference between now and then those lick-spittle Lib Dems have joined the Tories to privatise it.
(12) And this is the problem: the unrealistic optimism that is an essential part of human character drives us to believe in miracle cures, whether they be statins, the lottery, or the spittle of a supposed messiah.
(13) B) (7) positiveness of reply marker in serum and spittle.
(14) These 287 exams consist of 145 bronchic aspiration liquids and 142 spittles.
(15) Faced with the BNP , all three mainstream parties, in what had doubtless been the subject of some negotiation by the programme's producers, were seated squarely to the left of the long, curved desk, with David Dimbleby in the centre acting as a reassuring buffer against any anticipated xenophobic spittle.
(16) More generally, a chemico-induction produced by material buccal spittle, at the laying, on by excrements is at the origin of these mechanisms.
(17) Standing next to David Dimbleby, he maintained an upbeat and optimistic tone, a more effective salesman than the traditional Brexiteer – a bar-room bore in a striped boating club blazer, giving a red-faced, spittle-flecked speech.
(18) However, the clinical symptomatology of this syndrome is peculiar, with little muscular mass, a long face with an open mouth from which the spittle runs easily, muscular hypotony, myotatic areflexia of hyporeflexia, normal serum enzymes and E.M.G.
(19) Above said was determined throughout DNA molecular hybrid of VHB in serum and spittle.
(20) It argued last week that Britain's austerity is "mendacious" spin, and a "con" and, in case you hadn't got the message and been bathed in sufficient spittle, "bare-faced deception".