infantile

Modifies a noun

• spasm: Early treatment of infantile spasm might preserve cognitive functioning in some children.
• colic: However, they have no place in the treatment of infantile colic.
• esotropia: Early surgery for infantile esotropia; results and influence of age upon results.
• paralysis: In Turkey they found people who called infantile paralysis ' the American disease ' .
• scurvy: In 1877 he was the first to define a then mysterious childhood disease, which he named ' infantile scurvy ' .
• eczema: Children who suffer from infantile eczema tend to have dry skin.

Modifying Another Word

• not: This is basic playground psychology, and the media is nothing if not infantile.
• almost: Without a spirit of childhood in the listener, the music of the Catalan Federico Mompou can seem almost infantile.
• even: The basic Mormon belief is one that comes out of the morning of the earth, from the most primitive and even infantile attitude.
• so: The point about fairies etc is so infantile in logic I can barely contain my disbelief.
• quite: Indeed, as cities go, Grahamstown may be called quite infantile.
• too: James Ballantyne concurred, judging the tone of the opening chapters alternately too historical and too infantile.

Used with adjective complement

• call: Formerly called infantile Gaucher disease, Type 2 is characterized by severe neurological involvement in the first year of life.
• seem: Without a spirit of childhood in the listener, the music of the Catalan Federico Mompou can seem almost infantile.