What is "neonatology"

branch of medicine concerned with newborn infants, 1960, from neonate "recently born infant" + -ology.

n. (context medicine English) The branch of medicine that deals with newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant.

n. that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates

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 (NICUs). 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 ( birth defects), sepsis, pulmonary hypoplasia or birth asphyxias.

Neonatology (formerly Biology of the Neonate) is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering the fields of fetal and neonatal research and is published by Karger Publishers. It was established in 1959 as Biologia Neonatorum and renamed to Biology of the Neonate in 1970, obtaining its current name in 2006. Developmental Pharmacology and Therapeutic was incorporated into the Biology of the Neonate in 1996. Its editors-in-chief are H. L. Halliday ( Queen's University Belfast) and C. P. Speer ( University of Würzburg). Its former editors are A. Minkowski (1959–1985) and J.-P. Relier (1986–2003). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.694.