neonatal
Adjective
Meaning
relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth
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neonatal care
the neonatal period
Although two deaths (one stillbirth and one neonatal death) were reported, there was a lack of acupuncture-associated maternal mortality.
A neonatal nurse cried about newborn babies not being allowed visitors.
A joint study titled “State of Global Air 2020’ found that infants born in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia had the highest rates of neonatal deaths attributable to air pollution.
As of 1998 neonatal tetanus was common in many developing countries and was responsible for about 14% (215,000) of all neonatal deaths. citation In 2010 the worldwide death toll was 58,000 newborns.