perinatal
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- adjective
- /ˌpɛrəˈneɪtl/
- Specialized
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perinatal
- The hospital has implemented new procedures to improve perinatal care for mothers and their newborns.
- perinatal transmission
- perinatal mortality
- perinatal anoxia
Examples
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IDA in pregnant women is associated with perinatal mortality - the death of the fetus or newborn baby.
Academic text (2005) -
An international comparison of perinatal mortality rates and their components attests to this.
Academic text (1991) -
All but one of the children had died during the perinatal period or during birth.
Academic text (2011) -
Lack of communication is associated with a lack of accurate knowledge of perinatal transmission risk.
Academic text (2013) -
My fellow researchers and I have now analyzed the data regarding the perinatal period.
Academic text (1995) -
Hospital staff are critical in helping mothers, fathers, siblings, and other family members deal with perinatal death.
Academic text (1997) -
The study began as a perinatal health survey that enrolled all live infants born at three maternity hospitals.
Academic text (2011) -
Although these women are not at risk for perinatal transmission, preventing horizontal transmission during conception must be addressed in clinical care.
Academic text (2013) -
So far, some evidence has identified maternal education, child ethnicity, parenting stress, and perinatal factors as predictive of early language differences.
Academic text (2011) -
There were no differences in the obstetric and perinatal outcomes of adolescent and older mothers in Puerto Rico.
Academic text (2005)
How Early
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Perinatal comes from the parts peri- meaning 'around' and natal meaning 'birth', like perimeter, the line around a shape, and prenatal, meaning before birth. So perinatal means the time 'around' birth, covering just before, during, and just after a baby is born.