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prenatal

[ pree-neyt-l ]

adjective

  1. previous to birth or to giving birth:

    prenatal care for mothers.



prenatal

/ priːˈneɪtəl /

adjective

  1. occurring or present before birth; during pregnancy


noun

  1. informal.
    a prenatal examination

prenatal

  1. A descriptive term for the period between conception and birth.


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Derived Forms

  • preˈnatally, adverb

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Other Words From

  • pre·natal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of prenatal1

First recorded in 1820–30; pre- + natal

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Example Sentences

Per their research, most of the evidence points toward prenatal factors in developing autism.

In the case of a falsely reassuring prenatal test, there are two possibilities for a lawsuit against a health practitioner.

This is the problem facing the Halls and anyone else who receives a falsely reassuring result on a prenatal test.

The evidence does not prove that infants exposed to SSRIs that develop autism do so because of that prenatal exposure.

Then, at our last (9 months) prenatal visit, we heard no heartbeat.

She says that with such a prenatal experience perhaps death was the best for him.

It is largely constitutional weakness, or prenatal predilection, or the idiosyncrasy of individuality.

Its tiny body is a concourse of physical atoms with a prenatal history of a few months.

Once cleft palates were frequent—prenatal nutritional deficiencies or traumas.

The prenatal influences for those months gave the sort of man God wanted.

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