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Definitions: Perinatal |
PerinatalAdjective1. Near the nose. 2. Occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after); "perinatal mortality"; "perinatal care". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Pertaining to or occurring in the period shortly before and after birth. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: PerinatalSynonym: perirhinal (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: postnatal (adj), prenatal (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perinatal |
| Specialty definitions using "perinatal": Cefotiam ♦ farrowing sow ♦ Maternal Age 35 and over ♦ nursing sow ♦ Perinatal Care, Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Recessive ♦ suckling sow. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Perinatal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (perinatal), German (perinatal), Portuguese (perinatal). |
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Health | These findings from the NINDS perinatal study have profoundly altered medical theories about cerebral palsy and have spurred today's researchers to explore alternative causes. (references) | |
In reports from approximately 500 perinatal centers, only 12 to 18 percent of women who deliver preterm infants of 501 to 1,500 grams birthweight are treated with antenatal corticosteroids. (references) | ||
Women who enroll in this program are given educational materials on pre-conception planning and perinatal care and are asked to provide information about the health of their children (this information is kept confidential). (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | In September 2000, UNICEF reported that nearly 100,000 children die each year before their first birthday, almost half during the perinatal period. (references) |
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| "Perinatal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.24% of the time. "Perinatal" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.24% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 132 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "perinatal": Perinatal Care. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "perinatal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 出ç"Ÿæ—¶æœŸå‰åŽ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perinatal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | perinataal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | périnatal, périnatal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | perinatal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεÏιγεννητικός (connatal, connate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perinatale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erinatalpay perinatal. (various references) перинатальный. (various references) perinatal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "perinatal": perinatally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: airplane, antirape, interlap, palatine, parental, parietal, parlante, paternal, prenatal, trapline, triplane. | |
-2 letters: apteral, apteria, latrine, painter, pantile, partial, patinae, pertain, plainer, plaiter, planate, plantar, planter, platane, platier, platina, praline, preanal, ratline, reliant, repaint, replant, retinal, trenail. | |
-3 letters: aerial, aliner, alpine, antiar, antler, antral, aplite, apneal, arpent, atrial, earlap, enrapt, entail, entrap, lanate, lariat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: biparental, intraplate, parliament, penetralia, planetaria. | |
+2 letters: operational, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, patrilineal, perinatally, planarities, planetarium, plantigrade, proletarian, transalpine, uniparental. | |
+3 letters: antiparallel, antiparticle, antipleasure, biparentally, inapparently, paternalisms, paternalists, perorational, planetariums, plantigrades, pleasantries, premalignant, proletarians, replantation, reputational. | |
+4 letters: antiparticles, antipleasures, apportionable, coplanarities, explanatorily, explorational, extrapolating, extrapolation, hyperrational, intrapersonal, operationally, parenthetical, parliamentary, paternalistic, pentobarbital, perambulating, perambulation, permutational, phalansteries, phenobarbital, plantocracies, practicalness, prevocational, reapplication, replantations, supernational, uniparentally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 69 6E 61 74 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. .. -. .- - .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r i n a t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0069 006E 0061 0074 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507184758067866778 |
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