sga infant

1. 1.

   an infant whose size and weight are considerably less than the average for babies of the same age

   Synonymssmall-for-gestational-age infant

   Broaderneonate

Questions about sga infant

What does sga infant mean?

sga infant means "an infant whose size and weight are considerably less than the average for babies of the same age".

What is another word for sga infant?

Close synonyms include small-for-gestational-age infant. 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 sga infant a common word?

sga 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.