| NDR | neonatal death rate; normal detrusor reflex |
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| NH | natriuretic hormone; Naval Hospital; neonatal hepatitis; neurologically handicapped; nocturnal hypov... |
| NHC | National Health Council; neighborhood health center; neonatal hypocalcemia; nonhistone chromosomal [... |
| NICU | neonatal intensive care unit; neurological intensive care unit; neurosurgical intensive care unit; n... |
| NLE | neonatal lupus erythematosus |
| neonatal mortality rate | The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The neonatal mortality rate in the united states, which was 8.4 per 1,000 live births in 1980, declined to 5.8 per 1,000 live births in 1990. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| neonatal nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of newborn infants during the first four weeks after birth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal pulmonary venous hypertension | <radiology> With cardiomegaly, hypoplastic left heart, critical aortic stenosis, cor triatriatum, pulmonary venous atresia, normal heart size, infradiaphragmatic TAPVR (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal ring | In deciduous teeth, a line of demarcation between prenatal and postnatal enamel. Synonym: neonatal ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal screening | The identification of selected parameters in newborn infants by various tests, examinations, or other procedures. Screening may be performed by clinical or laboratory measures. A screening test is designed to sort out healthy neonates from those not well, but the screening test is not intended as a diagnostic device, rather instead as epidemiologic. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal sepsis | <paediatrics> A serious blood-borne bacterial infection in the infant who is less than 4 months of age. A common causative agent is haemophilus influenza type b. Babies who are septic are usually listless, weak, overly sleepy, not urinating and pale. (27 Sep 1997) |
| neonatal tetanus | Tetanus occurring in newborn infants, usually due to infection of umbilical area with Clostridium tetani, often a result of ritualistic practices; has high fatality rate (about 60%). Synonym: neonatal tetanus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal tetany | Hypocalcaemic tetany occurring in neonates or young infants, due to transient functional hypoparathyroidism in consumption of cow's milk (high phosphorus content). Synonym: myotonia neonatorum, tetania neonatorum, tetanism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal tooth | A tooth erupting up to 30 days after birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intensive care, neonatal | Continuous care and monitoring of newborn infants with life-threatening conditions, in any setting. (12 Dec 1998) |
| intensive care units, neonatal | Hospital units providing continuing surveillance and care to acutely ill newborn infants. (12 Dec 1998) |
| isoimmune neonatal thrombocytopenia | Immune thrombocytopenia resulting from maternal-foetal platelet incompatibility. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early neonatal death | Death of a liveborn infant occurring less than 7 completed days (168 hours) from the time of birth, late neonatal death, death of a liveborn infant occurring after 7 completed days of age but before 28 completed days. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jaundice, neonatal | The jaundice sometimes seen in newborn infants. It is also called icterus neonatorum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adenomatous polyp | A polyp that consists of benign neoplastic tissue derived from glandular epithelium. Synonym: cellular polyp, polypoid adenoma. (05 Mar 2000) |