How to Use neonate in a Sentence

neonate

noun

• Dines determined that the whale was a female, was a full-term neonate and likely was a week old.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• All eight neonates are healthy, have shed their skin once and started dining on pinky-sized hairless baby mice.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
• This means there is a two-month window after birth where neonates are at their most vulnerable.
  — Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
• One drug has been approved for human use, but only in neonates, so researchers would still need to determine dosages for grown adults.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• The likelihood that any fetus will survive outside the uterus as a neonate is an estimate based on many factors.
  — Cara C. Heuser, Scientific American, 4 May 2022
• In the summer months, most of their prey is very strong and healthy, so wolves are primarily feeding on neonates—newborn elk and bison calves, and sometimes even pronghorn calves.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
• The woman’s cat had rejected the all-black kitten, likely because of the little one’s health condition, so the two-faced neonate would need round-the-clock human care to stay alive.
  — Laura Barcella, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Existing studies show that loud noise can cause a stress response in neonates, but lullabies and breath sounds can help calm babies.
  — Dr. Abimbola Okulaja, ABC News, 27 June 2024
• One of the most interesting aspects that has come out of William S. Brown’s research is that females stay with the babies, which are called neonates, for a week to 10 or 12 days, until the babies shed.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2016
• Now other zoos are excitedly lining up to get one of the Milwaukee zoo's rhino viper babies, which are called neonates.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
• Yet none of the vast diversity of anesthetic agents work in a consistent manner across all patients, who range from neonates to birthing mothers, the very elderly or the very sick.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
• The transition from a human womb to an artificial womb has to be seamless in order to stop the natural process of a fetus turning into a neonate.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Another rhino viper pair gave birth to one living neonate in August, though unfortunately that mother died a short time later.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
• In Western countries, neonates born with cataracts typically receive surgery shortly after birth.
  — Cordula Hölig, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• The committee cited a potential risk of transferring pathogenic organisms from the woman to the neonate.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• The brain of a developing fetus or neonate could be especially vulnerable.
  — Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• In some cases, the kittens are neonates in need of 24/7 care and special equipment, like incubators, formula, syringes, bottles, medications and a dedicated volunteer who will feed them every two hours, including during the night.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
• The harmful effects of probiotics can also emerge due to people suffering from chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, liver cirrhosis, high blood pressure, neonates, asthmatic patients, stomach ulcers.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• The availability of such services in the home can help promote adequate nutrition and more close monitoring of the neonate’s hemodynamic stability, including temperature and blood glucose monitoring.
  — Julia Hinkle, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024