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neonatal death

neonatal death

1 5.2
A baby born alive who dies within the first 28 days of life
  • noun
  • /ˌniːoʊˈneɪtəl dɛθ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : muerte neonatal
  • The overall risk of neonatal death is 0.3%, or 3 in 1,000 live births.
  • stillbirth and neonatal death

Examples

  • However, across perinatal/neonatal studies in high-resource countries, 2/3 to 4/5 of neonatal deaths consistently occur in the first 7 days.

    Blog text (19)
  • Fetal asphyxia and neonatal death are also significant risks.

    Academic text (2015)
  • This resulted in increased reporting of neonatal deaths.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Sure, the maternal and neonatal death rates were higher 100 years ago.

    Blog text (7)
  • Pneumonia or sepsis, pre-term delivery, and asphyxia at birth are the leading causes of neonatal deaths.

    Blog text (21)
  • Earlier attention had been given to reducing the neonatal death rate by dealing with postnatal threats to infant life, improving the domestic sanitary environment, and the quality of infant care.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Separating the neonatal (within thirty days of birth) from the postneonatal (after thirty days of birth) infant mortality indicates that the neonatal deaths were comparable to that of the general population.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The overall risk of neonatal death is significantly higher in areas with limited healthcare access.

  • Education and improved healthcare practices have led to a decrease in neonatal deaths across the region.

  • Pneumonia is one of the main causes of neonatal death in infants during their first month of life.

How Common

infant mortality
  • Specialized
20 4.1
neonatal mortality
  • Specialized
1 6.0
neonatal death
  • Specialized
1 5.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

neonatal + death

The meaning 'death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days' is directly and compositionally derived from 'neonatal' (concerning infants in their first month) + 'death' (end of life). This adjective+noun pattern is a standard, transparent compounding pattern and has clear cross-linguistic parallels in medical terminology, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

Neonatal death breaks into neo and natal, where neo means 'new' and natal means 'birth'. So, think of a very new baby just after birth; neonatal death means the death of a newborn 'within the first 28 days of life'.