small-for-gestational-age infant

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsSGA infant

   Broaderneonate

Questions about small-for-gestational-age infant

What does small-for-gestational-age infant mean?

small-for-gestational-age 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 small-for-gestational-age infant?

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

small-for-gestational-age 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.