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perinates

perinates is the plural of perinate.

Meaning of perinate

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

Questions about perinates

What is perinates the plural of?
Perinates is the plural of perinate.

Words near perinates in the dictionary

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

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