newborn
newborn
Definition
new·born (no̵̅o̅′bôrn′, nyo̵̅o̅′-)
adjective
- recently born
- reborn
Etymology: ME
noun
a recently born infant
newborn
Synonyms
newborn
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: Everyone is at risk for Lyme disease, including newborns.
- screen: Infant Hearing Screening - Stresses the importance of screening newborns for hearing loss.
- help: The reason, it turns out, is that mother's milk actively helps newborns avoid disease in a variety of ways.
Adjective modifier
- affected: Affected newborns may have a rapid pulse, heart failure, and severe weight loss with failure to thrive.
- other: These isolated babies hear nothing but the crying of other newborns.
- healthy: Of the 17 patients with quintuplets or more, 10 ( 59 % ) delivered live and healthy newborns.
- human: Laterality in human newborns Prof Brian Hopkins From Swedish Foundation for University Research.
- slim: Three sizes, plus extra small for premature and slim newborns.
- sick: Conditions to address Some premature babies or sick newborns may have to remain in the special baby unit for several weeks or even months.
Modifies a noun
- baby: Some newborn babies need a little extra special care.
- infant: Neonatal Unit Provides three levels of care for newborn infants born either prematurely or who are sick at birth.
- babe: Silence is the mother singing to her newborn babe.
- screening: Newborn hearing screening checks all children within the first few days of life.
- lamb: Fancy roaming the hills, tagging every single newborn lamb - twice!
- piglet: There was a hunchbacked, goggle-eyed creature behind a desk, with glasses which made his eyes look like a newborn piglet 's.
Modifying Another Word
- even: All members of your family, even newborn babies, must have their own card.
Used with adjective complement
- age: Kindermusik is offered by trained and licensed educators to children aged newborn to 7 years and their parents.
Preposition: in
- house: So basically, at the end of college my sims abandoned their 3 year old newborns in a house alone!
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