WordNet
n. an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation [syn: preterm baby, premature infant, preterm infant, preemie, premie]
Usage examples of "premature baby".
Its clinical history indicates that she was a premature baby, was born ten weeks before time.
A six-weeks-premature baby would be credible, while a three-months-premature baby would not.
His worst fear was that he would have to deliver a premature baby, when he knew very little about delivering babies and less about Coridan physiology.
Dora, I haven't any' way to take care of a premature baby, and I don't want to have to bury a baby as well as Buck.
I haven't any way to take care of a - premature baby, and I don't want to have to bury a baby as well as Buck.
And she thought of that moment when, not even supported by Note, who had made some excuse, she had laid the tiny body of their premature baby, so fragile, so light, into the earth and had looked up at the sky and wanted to say something to God, but couldn't because her throat was blocked with sobs and no words, nothing, would come.
Shirley's pregnancy had been difficult, resulting in a dangerously premature baby and the doctor warning that any more attempts might prove fatal.
When the marriage ended, after a pitifully short time, with its only memorial being that minute, sad stone that marked the short life of their premature baby, she had yearned for a life of stability and order.