neonatal mortality rate

1. 1.

   the death rate during the first 28 days of life

   Synonymsneonatal mortality

   Broaderdeathrate

Questions about neonatal mortality rate

What does neonatal mortality rate mean?

neonatal mortality rate means "the death rate during the first 28 days of life".

What is another word for neonatal mortality rate?

Close synonyms include neonatal mortality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is neonatal mortality rate a common word?

neonatal mortality rate 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.