NEONATOLOGY

Neonatology

Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units . The principal patients of neonatologists are newborn infants who are ill or requiring special medical care due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations, sepsis, pulmonary hyperplasia or birth asphyxias.

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neonatology

Noun

  1. The branch of medicine that deals with newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant.


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