noun
definition
A newborn infant; recently born baby.
Examples of neonates in a Sentence
Neonates Risks to the fetus and neonate from maternal chickenpox are related to the time of infection in the mother.
He performed pioneer work in the early days of the management of tracheo-oesophageal fistula in neonates.
Neonate mice passively immunized by suckling from mice fed transgenic potatoes had less diarrhea than neonates unexposed to the vaccine [14] .
Other relevant features unborn infants, neonates, immunocompromised individuals, pregnant women and the elderly are at high risk.
Chickenpox is most serious for pregnant women, and immunocompromised individuals and exposed neonates, who are at risk of severe, disseminated disease.
This allows safe examination of all children, including neonates.
However, none of the reported incidents involved neonates.
More premature neonates are likely to develop a more severe form of disease (' threshold disease ' ).
It is a modern, well-equipped unit with all the high tech facilities needed to support pre-term and sick neonates.
Regional anesthesia is a good way of achieving analgesia in surgical neonates.
The main plank will be immunization of high-risk neonates.
Project Objectives The project will deal with two distinct groups, patients with cardiac problems and neonates with surgical problems.
Awaiting the onset of labor appears to be beneficial in preventing respiratory morbidity in term neonates delivered by elective cesarean section.
For example the MAC in preterm neonates for halothane is 0.87 percent compared to 1.20 in older infants.
Maximum length sequence brainstem evoked response - a potentially sensitive means to detect neural dysfunction of the brain in high risk neonates.
Neonates and infants are more sensitive than adults to non-depolarising muscle relaxants.
However neonates require lower concentrations of volatile anesthetics than infants.
Monocytes and macrophages are somewhat higher in neonates, and make up as much as 80 percent or more, with only 20 percent or less being lymphocytes.
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam who developed the scale said that existing behavioral pain measures were created for premature neonates or infants and may not be appropriate for older children.
In neonates, pneumonia may result from colonization of the infant's nasopharynx by organisms that were in the birth canal at the time of delivery.
Usually all newborns (neonates) delivered in the hospital will have total serum bilirubin (TSB) measured in the clinical laboratory on one or more blood samples as requested by attending pediatricians.