PERINATAL

perinatal

(adjective) occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after); “perinatal mortality”; “perinatal care”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

perinatal (comparative more perinatal, superlative most perinatal)

Of or pertaining to the time around birth.

Source: Wiktionary



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INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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