(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.
Suckling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suckle
(v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
(v. t.) A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(2) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(3) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(6) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(7) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(8) Insulin, which slightly but significantly, depressed the level in 40 day old rats, increased it in suckling ones, as does prednisolone.
(9) From these results, we conclude that opiate peptides are released in response to the suckling stimulus in the cynomolgus monkey and that they mediate the effects of suckling on PRL secretion in both gonadal-intact and agonadal cynomolgus monkeys.
(10) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(11) The yield and viability of isolated hepatocytes from suckling rats were 18.1 X 10(7) cells per gram liver and 95%, respectively.
(12) Lipase level per unit wet tissue and total pancreatic levels increased from 2 to 35 d of age in suckling pigs (P less than .01).
(13) The effects of undernutrition during suckling on neurochemical and behavioral parameters were investigated in adult rats.
(14) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
(15) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
(16) Strain G-K-LP showed higher pathogenicity for suckling mice than strain G-K-SP.
(17) Body weight was not affected by hormonal treatment, but the tails of the hypophysectomized sucklings were significantly lengthened by thyroxine alone, the effect being enhanced when growth hormone was also given.
(18) These findings demonstrate that the metabolism of the suckling neonate is directly related to longitudinal changes in the composition of maternal milk.
(19) Chylous ascites is a disorder visible as a white fluid in the peritoneal cavity of suckling mice.
(20) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.