PRETERM INFANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preterm infant mean? 

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

1. an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRETERM INFANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

preemie; premature baby; premature infant; premie; preterm baby; preterm infant

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

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

 Context examples 

And response to vitamin D supplementation and impact on outcomes in preterm infants is not well understood.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Treating preterm infants with antibiotics for more than 20 months appears to promote the development of multidrug-resistant gut bacteria.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

Surprisingly, infants in the study who received diuretic therapy were more likely to require respiratory support, compared to extremely preterm infants with similar respiratory problems who did not receive the therapy.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

It is usually seen in preterm infants and caused by lack of blood flow and oxygenation in the periventricular brain parenchyma.

(Periventricular Leukomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

The therapy is commonly given to preterm infants to help drain fluid from the lungs, but there is little research evidence to support the practice.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

Current recommendations of vitamin D supplementation for preterm infants span a wide range of doses, even among major medical groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute of Medicine, and the Endocrine Society.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers used high-speed DNA sequencing and advanced computational analysis to study stool samples from 32 infants born very preterm who received antibiotic treatment for 21 months (in the neonatal intensive care unit and after discharge), nine infants born very preterm who received antibiotics for less than a week, and 17 healthy term and late preterm infants who hadn’t received antibiotics.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

Diuretic therapy — commonly given to extremely preterm infants to help them overcome respiratory problems — appears to offer no benefit for this purpose, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

Physicians have been prescribing vitamin D in premature and preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) to prevent rickets, a disease that causes soft, weak bones in children and is often associated with vitamin D deficiency.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)