floppy infant (redirected from Peripheral nerve disease)

infant /in·fant/ (in´fint) the human young from the time of birth to one year of age.

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dysmature infant  postmature i.

floppy infant  see under syndrome.

immature infant  one usually weighing less than 2500 grams at birth and not physiologically well developed.

low birth weight (LBW) infant  one weighing less than 2500 g at birth.

mature infant  one weighing 2500 g or more at birth, usually at or near full term, physiologically fully developed, and having optimal chance of survival.

moderately low birth weight (MLBW) infant  one weighing at least 1500 but less than 2500 g at birth.

newborn infant  the human young during the first four weeks after birth.

postmature infant 

1. one with postmaturity syndrome.

2. postterm i.

postterm infant  one born at or after the forty-second completed week (294 days) of gestation.

premature infant 

1. one usually born after the twentieth completed week and before full term, defined as weighing 500 to 2499 g at birth; the chance of survival depends on the weight. In countries where adults are smaller than in the United States, the upper limit may be lower.

2. preterm i.

preterm infant  one born before the thirty-seventh completed week (259 days) of gestation.

term infant  one born in the interval from the thirty-seventh completed week to the forty-second completed week of gestation; 259 days to 293 days, inclusive.

very low birth weight (VLBW) infant  one weighing less than 1500 g at birth.

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floppy infant

Floppy infant syndrome Neonatology A neonate with poor muscle tone and/or response to stimulation of extremities caused by a heterogeneous group of neuromuscular and musculoskeletal disorders

Floppy infant causes

Bone disease Osteogenesis imperfecta, rickets

CNS Atonic diplegia, cerebellar ataxia, cerebral lipidosis, chromosome defects, kernicterus, Lowe's oculocerebrorenal syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Zellweger cerebrohepatocellular syndrome

Muscle disease Central core disease, glycogen storage disease type IIa–Pompe's disease, mitochondrial myopathies, muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, nemaline myopathy

Neuromuscular junction disease Botulism, myasthenia gravis

Peripheral nerve disease Amyotonia congenita, anterior horn cell disease, congenital sensory neuropathy, familial dysautonomia, Guillain-Barré syndrome, polyneuritis

Spinal cord disease Poliomyelitis, spinal cord trauma and tumors, transverse myelopathy, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease

Non-neuromuscular disease Endocrinopathies, metabolic disease, vitamin deficiency