antenatal

Examples

• All

• Health facilities, if present, are closed when they return from work, and they cannot attend appointments for immunization, antenatal care, or care of long-term conditions.

  Academic text (2016)

• A 37-year-old primigravida was diagnosed with a complete heart block (CHB) during her antenatal checkup at 36 weeks.

  Academic text (2007)

• Your routine antenatal questions suggest that she has no idea she is at risk of serious disease.

  Academic text (2012)

• About 95% of the women did not receive any antenatal investigations.

  Academic text (2007)

• And we did like antenatal classes, didn't we?

• The midwife still turned up for the next antenatal visit and was shown the door.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I was doing a stint in the antenatal clinic.

  Children of Men (2006)

• Previous studies of factors that affect early lung function were unable to examine separate antenatal and postnatal effects.

  Academic text (1999)

• Chlamydia screening is not offered routinely as part of antenatal screening.

  Academic text (2015)

• A total of 279 pregnant women attending antenatal clinics at the three hospitals were interviewed.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

P

prenatal

vsantenatal

46 3.8

Happening before a baby is born during pregnancy

emphasizes care of the unborn child within pregnancy

I

in utero

vsantenatal

• Specialized

8 7.9

The time when a baby is still inside its mother's womb

is used for general before-birth matters, especially pregnancy care

P

preborn

vsantenatal

1 6.9

Relating to a baby before it is born

focuses on pregnancy and care rather than mere existence

A

antepartum

vsantenatal

• Specialized

9.9

The time before a baby is born, especially before labor

covers before birth more broadly, not only the pre-labor period

Antonyms

P

postnatal

3 4.1

About the time after a baby is born for the mother or newborn

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology