What does premature baby mean?

premature baby means "an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation".

What is another word for premature baby?

Close synonyms include preterm baby, premature infant, preterm infant, preemie, premie. 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 premature baby a common word?

premature baby 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.

premature baby — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation
Synonymspreterm baby premature infant preterm infant preemie premie
Broaderneonate

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What does premature baby mean?: premature baby means "an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation".

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