premature infant

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   an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation

   Synonymspremature babypreterm babypreterm infantpreemiepremie

   Broaderneonate

Questions about premature infant

What does premature infant mean?

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

What is another word for premature infant?

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

premature infant 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.