(a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) 310 patients with acute infantile gastroenteritis were divided into 2 groups.
(2) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
(3) Out of 75 vesical bacteriurias 39 infantile and 7 adult (together 61%) specimens contained antibody-coaded bacteria.
(4) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(5) We show how this model would explain the perinatal or infantile onset of the disease, the variability of the rate of evolution between the different SMA forms, and the fact that motoneuron loss is much more dramatic in SMA than in even advanced cases of myopathy.
(6) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
(7) The clinical and surgical experience on congenital pulmonary cysts at the Hospital Infantil of México was reviewed.
(8) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(9) In 4 patients with neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) (3 patients with the junvenile type, 1 patient with the late infantile type), the ultrastructural spectrum of residual bodies in the central and peripheral nervous system presented curvilinear profiles in all cases and regions investigated and many more ultrastructural patterns within and beyond regions commonly accessible to biopsy, probably due to age dependence, local tissue and cellular biochemical factors.
(10) As there is usually little or no congenital evidence of the dominant type, "infantile" or "autosomal dominant" hereditary endothelial dystrophy would be more appropriate names for the dominant variant.
(11) The differential diagnosis of infantile wheezing is of particular importance in this very young age group.
(12) In 1943 Konrad Lorenz postulated that certain infantile cues served as releasers for caretaking behaviour in human adults.
(13) Recovery was observed 2 months after treatment of acute infantile paracoccidioidomycosis.
(14) The possible late effects of x-irradiation to the infantile thymus were investigated by studying immune functions in 12 healthy persons with a history of thymic x-irradiation and healthy control subjects.
(15) We, therefore, initiated a study to assess plasma and urinary levels of tetrahydrobiopterin in infantile autism to see if they are reduced.
(16) In infancy, focal-unilateral convulsions and infantile spasms were frequently associated with organic damages.
(17) In 13 cases of infantile spasms whose EEG showed hypasrhythmia, paroxysmal discharges were completely or remarkably suppressed in 4 cases, partially suppressed in 3 cases, but not improved in 6 cases.
(18) Nonesterified dolichols have been measured in the urinary sediment of 20 patients with the late infantile and juvenile forms of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease), in 15 patients with other storage and neurodegenerative disorders and in 10 control subjects.
(19) In contrast, cryptogenic infantile spasms, in which there is no identifiable brain lesion, usually run a favorable course under treatment.
(20) Loperamide is more effective and safer than other opiates or opioid drugs in the treatment of both infantile and adult diarrhoea of various causes, although adequate fluid and electrolyte replacement remain the prime need.
Young
Definition:
(superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
(superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
(superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
(n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(5) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(6) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
(7) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
(8) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(11) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(12) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(13) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(14) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(15) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
(16) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(17) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(18) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(19) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(20) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.