high-risk infant


high-risk infant

Neonatology An infant at ↑ risk of suffering co-morbidity and potentially fatal complications due to fetal, maternal or placental anomalies or an otherwise compromised pregnancy. See High risk preganancy.

high-risk in·fant

(hī-risk in'fănt) A newborn considered to be in greater danger of health problems than the norm in the first month of life. Premature infants are more likely to be so categorized than infants carried to term.