WordNet
infant death
n. sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep [syn: sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, crib death, cot death]
Usage examples of "infant death".
As a major cause of infant death, infanticide is a serious evolutionary problem for animal mothers, who thereby lose their genetic investment in murdered offspring.
Their principal means of population control are famine, abortion, a high infant death-rate among Class Two indigenes, and war.
We can promise to explore the causes and patterns of sudden infant death.
In 2004, her first child had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: she had simply stopped breathing, without any fuss, sometime during her third evening of life.