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newborn
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newborn [′nĂ¼‚bȯrn]
(medicine)
Born recently; said of human infants less than a month old, especially of those only a few days old.


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The resulting excitotoxic lesions resemble the hypoxic-ischemic gray-matter lesions seen in full-term and near-term newborns, as well as the white-matter lesions of preterm newborns.
Over the past 20 years, many developments in the care of the preterm newborn have dramatically improved the survival rate of preterm infants.
1) The net cost of health care for treatment of preterm newborns covered by employer health plans has been estimated at $4.
 
 
 
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