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INFANT MORTALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does infant mortality mean?
• INFANT MORTALITY (noun)
The noun INFANT MORTALITY has 1 sense:
1. the death rate during the first year of life
Familiarity information: INFANT MORTALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The death rate during the first year of life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate
Hypernyms ("infant mortality" is a kind of...):
death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate (the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year)
Context examples
Our findings support the current recommendation of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the World Health Organization that women not drink or smoke during pregnancy, and emphasizes the significance of dual exposure, which provides the greatest risk for infant mortality.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
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