internatal

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adjective

Between pregnancies or births.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

internatal1

adjectiveinternatal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineBetween pregnancies or births.

    Poor internatal care will undo the benefit derived from even the best prenatal care.

    1936, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
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    However, analyses of internatal intervals by the number of live births a woman had experienced discloses nothing about the sequence of events; […]

    1948, Population Studies

    1971, Myra Woolf, Great Britain. General Register Office, Family intentions an enquiry undertaken for the General Register Office Again, fewer of the women married after 1959 had achieved their expected family size at the time of the investigation so that there is greater scope for fluctuations in the lengths of the internatal intervals ― but the general conclusion holds even for this group.

    Educational interactions during women's routine healthcare visits during internatal care (the time from the birth of one child that extends through the birth of the next child) can be used to maximize positive health benefits.

    2013, Robin G. Jordan, Janet Engstrom, Julie Marfell, Cindy L. Farley, Prenatal and Postnatal Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

internatal2

adjectiveinternatal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineBetween the buttocks; intergluteal.

    Keratin plugs and other follicle debris may contribute to the inflammation of the hair in the midline internatal cleft pits.

    2008, Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Attila Csendes, Markus W. Büchler, Oliver James Garden, General Surgery: Principles and International Practice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 759
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    […]; the gluteo-femoral crease does not correspond with that of the opposite side, being prolonged down upon the thigh, or not running at a right angle with the internatal fold, the latter of which inclines toward the affected side.

    1868, The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 276

    Vegetations situated around the anus augmented the difficulty of defaecation, and then fistulous tracts opened by which seropurulent discharge escaped into the internatal sulcus.

    1898, New York Medical Journal

    It is altogether probable that some of these broken loose bits of hair find a more or less permanent resting place in the internatal cleft.

    1957, International Medical Digest

    While soft tissue edema associated with an acute abscess in the internatal cleft may hide the causative pilonidal sinus, the presence of an abscess in the superior central or slightly lateral sacrococcygeal position is almost invariably associated with pilonidal sinus disease.

    2011, Peter Mattei, Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 468

Origin

internatal · adjective

  1. Latinnātālis“relating to birth”
  2. Englishinternatal

From inter- + Latin nātālis (“relating to birth”).

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internatal · adjective

  1. Latinnatis“rump”
  2. Englishinternatal

From inter- + Latin natis (“rump”) + -al.

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