What's the difference between postdate and postnate?
Postdate
Definition:
(v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.
(v. t.) To affix a date to after the event.
(a.) Made or done after the date assigned.
(n.) A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that high-risk pregnancies probably should not enter the postdate period since their doing so places the infant at serious risk.
(2) The postdate pregnancies in this relatively unselected population showed an increase in incidence of macrosomia and fetal heart rate abnormalities similar to those reported from referral centers.
(3) Postdatism and dysmaturity appear to contribute risk factors independently to infants admitted to the intensive care unit.
(4) Only one antepartum fetal death occurred in 1748 postdate pregnancies.
(5) One hundred four postdate pregnancies were managed according to a well-defined protocol calling for weekly oxytocin challenge tests and urinary estriols three times per week.
(6) A brief description of the definitions, incidence, and impact of postdate pregnancy is given for a baseline on which to base management decisions.
(7) In summary, ultrasound plays an important role in the evaluation of the postterm pregnancy, and its use should be considered in the following situations: 1) estimation of fetal weight in the potentially macrosomic infant before vaginal delivery is attempted; 2) frequent evaluation for oligohydramnios using the amniotic fluid index for the expectant management of the postdate pregnancy; 3) placental evaluation prior to elective induction of labor in a poorly dated pregnancy; and 4) evaluation of the postterm fetus for possible congenital abnormalities.
(8) Induction at 41.5 weeks' gestation or more comprehensive fetal surveillance than weekly nonstress testing are possible approaches to the management of postdates pregnancy, which need to be further studied.
(9) Postdatism, pregnancy-induced hypertension and rupture of the membranes were the major indications for induction of labor, accounting for 70% of the PGE2 group and 88% of the OA group.
(10) The medical-legal considerations associated with postdate pregnancies are not unlike those associated with the management of an uncomplicated pregnancy.
(11) It is recommended that: (1) pregnancies carried beyond 42 weeks do not require termination simply because they are post dates; (2) all postdate patients should be monitored during labor; (3) trained personnel to initiate neonatal resuscitation should be present at each postdate delivery.
(12) Older relatives were no more likely than younger ones to lose diagnoses nor to postdate their ages of first MDD onset.
(13) Patient's age, sex, whether or not dermographism predated or postdated onset of acne, symptoms of lesions, premenstrual flare, and history of atopy were recorded.
(14) The remaining 80% had a significantly lower incidence of postdatism, intrauterine growth retardation, and meconium-stained AF.
(15) A review of 46 perinatal deaths was conducted using a 1982 to 1985 regional perinatal network database of 6701 delivered postdate (greater than or equal to 42 weeks gestation) infants.
(16) Using a 1982-1985 regional perinatal network data base of 69,746 infants, a retrospective study was conducted to compare the perinatal outcome of 7,729 postdate infants (greater than or equal to 42 weeks' gestation) by maternal risk status.
(17) Compared with controls, the study group had a higher incidence of postdatism (36 versus 7%), intrauterine growth retardation (33 versus 8%), meconium-stained amniotic fluid (AF) (90 versus 9%), fetal heart rate (FHR) abnormalities upon admission to labor and delivery (58 versus 7%), and low 5-minute Apgar scores (46 versus 1.4%).
(18) Using a regional perinatal network database of 60,456 births, a study compared 3457 postdate (42 weeks or longer) infants to a control group of 8135 infants born at 40 weeks' gestation from 1982 through 1985.
(19) Amniotic fluid volume assessment is important particularly in cases of postdates and intrauterine growth retardation.
(20) Two groups of 32 patients each underwent oxytocin induction for postdatism, diabetes or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Postnate
Definition:
(a.) Subsequent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of postnatal methyl mercury exposure on the ontogeny of renal and hepatic responsiveness to trophic stimuli were examined.
(2) With [125I-Tyr11]SRIF as a radiolabeled ligand, the specific ligand binding to crude membrane increased transiently in the early phase of postnatal development and then decreased.
(3) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(4) This reactivity decreased first during late postnatal development.
(5) One patient died of pulmonary hypoplasia, but all the survivors showed restoration toward normal form postnatally.
(6) The study of three stages of postnatal development in the rat brain shows changes in the mucopolysaccharides content of the axons in function of the stage of development.
(7) These results suggest that the postnatal absence of PRL in mice does not result in a major reduction in the total population of TIDA neurons.
(8) The inter-connecting linkage system develops postnatally, and the 'tip-linkages' are already found in one-week-old mice, suggesting that the critical organization of the micromechanics of the stereocilia matures rapidly during the postnatal period.
(9) As early as postnatal Day 2, NPY-I nerves were observed in connective tissue septa of the developing ovary.
(10) We have studied the postnatal ontogeny of creatine kinase (CK) and the glycolytic enzymes phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM), enolase (En), and pyruvate kinase (PK) in rat brain and uterus.
(11) The postnatal development of substance P-like immunoreactivity (SP-LI) in the urinary bladder (assayed by radioimmunoassay and immunohistochemistry) was investigated in rats and compared with changes in the contractile response to acetylcholine, SP or capsaicin.
(12) G beta and 48-kDa protein mRNAs are already detectable at birth, opsin mRNA appears by postnatal day 5 (P5), G gamma mRNA at P6 and G alpha mRNA by P8.
(13) The inhibition of muscle cell proliferation which takes place in the early stages of the postnatal heart growth does not seem to be caused primarily by a disturbance of their S-phase.
(14) Between postnatal days 6 and 25, both endorphin and enkephalin levels increase, approaching their adult distribution pattern.
(15) These cells were observed throughout postnatal life from the second postnatal day to the oldest cats studied (up to 13 years old).
(16) Electron microscope examinations of the developing triadic junction in fibers from leg muscles of fetal and postnatal rats reveal a range of complexity from no structural connections across the space between apposed membranes of T and SR to all of the junctional structures visible in adult rat muscle fibers.
(17) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(18) These observations suggest that refractive anomalies such as anisometropia that limit high frequency spatial resolution and binocular integration can present a major obstacle to the postnatal development of binocular vision.
(19) Newborn rats were rendered hyperthyroid (daily subcutaneous injections of L-triiodothyronine, 10 micrograms 100 g-1 body weight) or hypothyroid (0.05% 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil in drinking water to nursing mothers) during the first 3 weeks of postnatal life.
(20) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.