high-risk infant

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high-risk infant,

any neonate, regardless of birth weight, size, or gestational age, who has a greater than average chance of morbidity or mortality, especially within the first 28 days of life. Risk factors include preconceptual, prenatal, natal, or postnatal conditions or circumstances that interfere with the normal birth process or impede adjustment to extrauterine growth and development. See also neonatal period, premature infant.

high-risk infant

Neonatology An infant at ↑ risk of suffering co-morbidity and potentially fatal complications due to fetal, maternal or placental anomalies or an otherwise compromised pregnancy. See High risk preganancy.

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