healthy infant

collocation in English

meaningsofhealthyandinfant

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healthy
adjective
uk
/ˈhel.θi/
us
/ˈhel.θi/
strong ...
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infant
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.fənt/
us
/ˈɪn.fənt/
a baby or a very ...
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(Definition ofhealthyandinfantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At some point in the first year of life, it becomes clear that thehealthyinfanthas a mind of his or her own.
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Several studies have demonstrated the sophistication with which thehealthyinfantis able to elicit and engage in social interaction in the immediate postpartum months.
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A woman dies in childbirth leaving a very premature buthealthyinfant, just a few hours old.
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With regard to hypothesis 1, a failure of localization would result in a much more widespread activation of cortical circuits than in the equivalenthealthyinfantor child.
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Soltis' summary of the studies analysing the acoustic structure of cry signals demonstrates that the colic cry does not differ significantly from otherhealthyinfantcries.
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I think in the process of debate the baby has grown into ahealthyinfantand can now be safely left to the care of another place.
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I understand that in bringing down the age of viability of a foetus to 24 weeks there remains a strong chance of ahealthyinfantbeing born alive and viable.
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A fit young adult with an acute curable illness has no different rights to an elderly patient, to a malformed infant or to a normalhealthyinfant.
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Five patients reported a total of 6 pregnancies, including one biochemical pregnancy, one early miscarriage, and 4 healthy infants.
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In healthy infants, the acoustic properties of the early infant cry function as a graded signal to adult listeners.
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Unfortunately, however, for both technical and ethical reasons adult imaging methods are not easily applicable to healthy infants.
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There have been many full-term healthy infants who were predicted to have a happy course but instead ended up with a variety of mental disorders later in life.
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Conversely, functional imaging studies on healthy infants could help to delineate the regions that could support a function given damage elsewhere, and the timetable of specialization for a function.
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Despite significant overlap between counts in splenectomized adults and term newborn infants, there was virtually no overlap by the time healthy infants reached one month of age.
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Additional scenarios could be produced in which healthy infants may or may not be maltreated, depending on circumstances.
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The sample for this study was representative of the context in which healthy infants with oropharyngeal candidiasis would be treated; this adds validity and reliability to these studies findings.
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Protecting the vaccinating population or combined with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, pertussis vaccine and inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine to healthy infants at two, four and six months of age.
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Comparisons will be made with a control group of healthy infants.
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Nine healthy infants could be offered to adoption societies, subject to the parental option if they wished to take it.
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