perinate

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noun

A member of a viviparous species from approximately one month before, to one month after, birth.

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nounperinate (plural perinates)

plural perinates

  1. biologyA member of a viviparous species from approximately one month before, to one month after, birth.
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    Others offer a range of solutions, for example, limiting study to adolescents and adults[…], excluding perinates and infants[…], including all ages from birth onwards but only considering lesions in the middle third of the diaphysis[…], or making case-by-case judgmental decisions in young individuals[…].

    2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30

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