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perinate

perinate noun: a member of a viviparous species from approximately one month before, to one month after, birth.

Noun

perinate (plural perinates)

  1. A member of a viviparous species from approximately one month before, to one month after, birth.
    • Others offer a range of solutions, for example, limiting study to adolescents and adults[…], excluding perinates and infants[…], including all ages from birth onwards but only considering lesions in the middle third of the diaphysis[…], or making case-by-case judgmental decisions in young...2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of perinate

pluralperinates

Questions about perinate

What does perinate mean?
Perinate means a member of a viviparous species from approximately one month before, to one month after, birth.
What part of speech is perinate?
Perinate is a noun.
What is the plural of perinate?
The plural of perinate is perinates.

Words near perinate in the dictionary

  1. perinarial
  2. perinasal
  3. perinatal
  4. perinatality
  5. perinatally
  6. perinate
  7. perinates
  8. perinatologic
  9. perinatological
  10. perinatologist
  11. perinatologists

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