full-term infants

collocation in English

meaningsoffull-termandinfant

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full-term
adjective
uk
/ˌfʊlˈtɜːm/
us
/ˌfʊlˈtɝːm/
involving a pregnancy that lasts for the normal amount of time, around 40 weeks in humans, before the baby ...
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infant
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.fənt/
us
/ˈɪn.fənt/
a baby or a very ...
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(Definition offull-termandinfantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They compared preterm and full-term infants on measures of maternal depression, infant health characteristics, and attachment security at 1 year postterm.
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Unfortunately, not enough death cases containing all the relevant information are available to repeat the adjusted model for full-term infants born at 37 weeks.
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Nineteen preterm infants (45%) and 17 full-term infants (41%) were firstborn.
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Twelve of the fifteen had already given birth to full-term infants, two were in mid-pregnancy and one had aborted.
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Specific causative agents for intracranial hemorrhage in full-term infants are as yet unknown.
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For full-term infants there was no association between maternal depression and attachment security, yet for preterm infants such an association emerges.
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By 8 months of age there were no longer differences in the task involvement of preterm and full-term infants, yet the differential maternal behavior remained.
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Necrotising enterocolitis in full-term infants.
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True differences existed in infant behavior at 4 months of age, with preterm infants exhibiting lower levels of responsiveness and involvement than the comparison full-term infants.
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This causes lesions resulting from acute total asphyxia in the basal nucleus of full-term infants.
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