perinataladj.
/ˌpɛrɪˈneɪtl/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈneɪdl/ Medicine.
Of or relating to the period comprising the latter part of fetal life and the early post-natal period (commonly taken as ending either one week or four weeks after birth).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth > before or after birth
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1944 S. Peller in Bull. Hist. Med. 16 373 Table 5 demonstrates the differences in perinatal mortality between singletons and twins. [Note] Perinatal mortality = ante, intra- and postnatal mortality.
1966 Ann. Rev. Med. 17 213 The perinatal period extends from the completion of embryonic differentiation into recognizable organ structures to the end of the first month of postnatal extra~uterine existence.
1973 Where Apr. 102/3 If they smoke after the third month of their pregnancy there is an excess of peri-natal deaths of about 30 per cent.
1993 Jrnl. Trop. Pediatrics 39 32/2 Various perinatal characteristics such as mode of delivery..were studied as possible adverse perinatal events in these neonates.
Derivatives
periˈnatally adv. during the perinatal period.
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1953 Acta Obstetr. & Gynecol. Scand. 32 308 By ‘perinatally dead infant’ is understood here an infant which dies before birth, during or within 15 days after birth.
1998 R. J. Zagar et al. in A. Z. Schwartzberg Adolescent in Turmoil xiv. 150 Adolescent killers had medical disorders that began perinatally, persisted from infancy into adolescence, and later contributed to murder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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