perinatal
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əˈneɪt adjective
occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
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| of, relating to, or occurring in the period from about three months before to one month after birth | |
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Perinatal
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Medical Dictionary
perinatal per·i·na·tal (pěr'ə-nāt'l)
adj.
Of, relating to, or being the period around childbirth, especially the five months before and one month after birth.
per'i·na'tal·ly adv.
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Example sentences
Other studies show that proper birth spacing, for which contraception is an effective tool, leads to better perinatal outcomes.
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