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1916 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 531 What defines man most truly is that the necessary means for gratifying his needs are..provided..by the steadily increasing collection of material and other inventions and discoveries made and developed by his species as a whole and transmitted postnatally from generation to generation.

1927 Jrnl. Anat. 61 321 The two parts of which the foetal suprarenal is composed—the true cortex which persists post-natally and the foetal cortex which atrophies after birth—are generally considered to have a common origin.

1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Mar. 222/2 The child..contracts the actual disease only when post-natally brought into contact with the specific germ.

1966 Ann. Rev. Med. 17 221 The inhibition seems to disappear as the animal matures postnatally.

1989 C. F. Clulow & J. Mattinson Marriage Inside Out (BNC) 107 Men can sometimes be as post-natally depressed as their partners.