prematurity
Americannoun
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the state, quality, or time period of being premature.
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in humans, the state of having been born before 37 weeks gestation.
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In 2024, for example, more than 700 newborns died from spontaneous bleeding in their brains, which could have been complicated by liver disease or prematurity.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
The central bank left its policy rate unchanged March 18, citing prematurity to assess the war’s economic effect and contained energy cost risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
The charity says complications from prematurity remain the leading cause of neonatal death and lifelong disability.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
Later, a nurse with nicotine stains on her fingernails, tells my parents I have developed retinopathy of prematurity, an eye condition caused by all that one-hundo oxygen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Of these there were three in particular, whom neither her mother’s complaints of prematurity, nor the ready raillery of the maiden herself, could effectually put off.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
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