the hospital has added a new wing especially for neonates
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There have been publications about nicotine transmission and neonates after blood transfusion.—Torie Bosch, STAT, 1 June 2026 For studies measuring neonates’ looking time at faces, this included 667 infants, half of them boys and half of them girls.—Lise Eliot, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026 Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.—Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 2026 Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.—Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for neonate
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borrowed from New Latin neonatus (short for infans neonatus, neo-natus puerulus, etc.), from neo-neo- + Latin natus, past participle of nāscī "to be born" — more at nation