perinatal

1. 1.

   occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after)

   “perinatal mortality”

   “perinatal care”

   Antonymspostnatalprenatal

Questions about perinatal

What does perinatal mean?

perinatal means "occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after)".

How many syllables are in perinatal?

perinatal has 4 syllables: pe-ri-na-tal. The stress falls on "ri".

What is the opposite of perinatal?

The recorded antonyms are postnatal, prenatal.

Is perinatal a common word?

perinatal 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.