infant

[ˈɪn.fənt]

[-ɪnfənt]

Fnourrisson

Definition of infant in English Dictionary

NomPLinfantsSUF-ant
1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
VerbeSGinfantsPRinfantingPT, PPinfanted
1. OBS To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
Plus d'exemples
1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
  - As per the study protocol, all women were secundigravid having previously delivered an infant weighing greater than 4000g.
  - Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996 , p. 136).
  - When the loss of water is very great (cholera, infant diarrhœas), there is an increase of potassium salts and phosphates in the urine.
2. Utilisé au début de la phrase
  - Infants may be limited in their counteradaptations to maternally influenced microbial manipulation, especially at younger ages.
3. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
  - She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.

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