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infant
(redirected from Human baby)

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infant
1. Law another word for minor
2. Brit a young schoolchild, usually under the age of seven
3. Law of or relating to the legal status of infancy

infant [′in·fənt]
(anthropology)
A baby; child under 2 years of age.
An individual under legal age.


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Given modern man's medical and technological advances, combined with his lofty opinion of his own intelligence, it is still somewhat of a mystery that so many fail to grasp the fundamental reality that a human pregnancy is the beginning of a real, live human baby.
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