neonatal death

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   death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life

   Broaderdeath

Questions about neonatal death

What does neonatal death mean?

neonatal death means "death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life".

Is neonatal death a common word?

neonatal death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.