INFANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infant mean? 

• INFANT (noun)
  The noun INFANT has 1 sense:

1. a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

  Familiarity information: INFANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

babe; baby; infant

Context example:

it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different

Hypernyms ("infant" is a kind of...):

child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infant"):

blue baby (an infant born with a bluish color; usually has a defective heart)

cherub (a sweet innocent baby)

abandoned infant; foundling (a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown)

godchild (an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism)

neonate; newborn (a baby from birth to four weeks)

nurseling; nursling; suckling (an infant considered in relation to its nurse)

papoose; pappoose (an American Indian infant)

test-tube baby (a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body; the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus)

war baby (conceived or born during war)

Derivation:

infancy (the earliest state of immaturity)

infancy (the early stage of growth or development)

 Context examples 

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a condition affecting infants.

(Bronchial Disorders, NIH)

Some of the nutrients in breast milk also help protect your infant against some common childhood illnesses and infections.

(Breastfeeding, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

The nursing of an infant at the mother's breast.

(Breast Feeding, NCI Thesaurus)

This fusion may be associated with infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

(CDK6/MLL Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

It results from damage to the fetal or infant brain.

(Cerebral Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital disorder charactized by an electrocardiographic finding of tachycardia that affects neonates and infants.

(Congenital Bundle of His Tachycardia, NCI Thesaurus)

C. indologenes is most commonly found in soil and water and is a rare pathogen, associated with meningitis in neonates and premature infants and nosocomial infections in adults.

(Chryseobacterium indologenes, NCI Thesaurus)

The delivery of an infant through a surgical abdominal incision.

(Cesarian Section, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication as to whether the subject was breast fed (received mother's milk) as an infant.

(Breast Fed Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The cessation of breathing in premature infants that lasts for more than 15-20 seconds.

(Apnea of Prematurity, NCI Thesaurus)