Sentence examples for is infant from inspiring English sources
noun
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
ONE OF the health statistics most frequently used to compare national health care systems is infant mortality.
Another deep and intractable problem in India is infant malnutrition, which affects adult cognitive capacities and the future employability of today's young.
"General mortality rates went into decline from 1870 - the one exception is infant mortality," says Dr Strange.
There is only one issue that ranks as the top associated concern in more than two countries and that is Infant Survival.
The leading cause of death in Honduras is infant mortality, but this hospital had reduced their infant mortality rate by more than 50% in six months.
Most important to me is infant nurturing.
One particularly well-known example of this is infant-directed speech (IDS, also known as motherese), which contains exaggerated pitch, elongated words and expanded vowel space with stretched formant frequencies (Ferguson, 1964).
In contrast, breastfeeding is infant-led and there is the possibility that breastfeeding maintains the child's innate ability to regulate their energy intake and to recognise satiety signals more effectively than bottle-fed infants [ 25].
Her primary subject that day was infant attachment.
The first issue the state took on was infant mortality.
These growth standards are infant sex specific.
