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postfetal

postfetal adjective: after the fetal stage; after birth.

Adjective

postfetal (not comparable)

  1. After the fetal stage; after birth.
    • The numbers of Meissner corpuscles drop rapidly with postfetal growth and then slowly decline with age.2013, T. L. Yaskh, Spinal Afferent Processing, page 28

Origin of postfetal

From post- + fetal.

Words formed from postfetal

  • postfetally

Questions about postfetal

What does postfetal mean?
Postfetal means after the fetal stage; after birth.
What part of speech is postfetal?
Postfetal is an adjective.

Words near postfetal in the dictionary

  1. postfertile
  2. postfertilisation
  3. postfertilization
  4. postfertilized
  5. postfestive
  6. postfetal
  7. postfeudal
  8. postfibrillatory
  9. postfibrinolysis
  10. postfight
  11. postfiller

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