Neonatology

Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition that arises when the body's dysregulated response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs.

milk produced by the mammary glands in the breast of a human female

thumb|Neonatology department at Laquintinie Hospital in Douala, Cameroon thumb|right|Physician performing a physical exam on a newborn baby after a Caesarean section. Neonatal medicine, or neonatology, is a subspecialty of pediatrics concerned with the care, development, and diseases of newborn infants, particularly those born prematurely or in need of critical care. Neonatologists are medical doctors who specialize in the medical management of newborns, especially critically ill or premature infants, most often in specialized neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Neonatal care typically invo

therapy consisting of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light, for a prescribed amount of time or at a specific time of day.

Apnea (also spelled apnoea in British English) is the temporary cessation of breathing, which may be voluntary or involuntary. During apnea, there is no movement of the muscles of inhalation, and the volume of the lungs initially remains unchanged. Depending on how blocked the airways are (patency), there may or may not be a flow of gas between the lungs and the environment. If there is sufficient flow, gas exchange within the lungs and cellular respiration would not be severely affected. Voluntarily doing this is called "'''holding one's breath'''". Apnea may first be diagnosed in childhood,

A fontanelle (or fontanel) (colloquially, soft spot) is an anatomical feature of the infant human skull comprising soft membranous gaps (sutures) between the cranial bones that make up the calvaria of a fetus or an infant. Fontanelles allow for stretching and deformation of the neurocranium both during birth and later as the brain expands faster than the surrounding bone can grow. Premature complete ossification of the sutures is called craniosynostosis.

pigmentation disease characterized by a high level of bilirubin in the blood, causing a yellowing of the skin and other tissues of a newborn infant

disease of the eye affecting prematurely born babies generally having received intensive neonatal care, in which oxygen therapy is used on them due to the premature development of their lungs

service which collects, screens, processes, and dispenses by prescription human milk donated by nursing mothers not biologically related to the recipient infant;

problem with Rh+ fetuses in Rh- mothers

Lanugo is very thin, soft, usually unpigmented hair that is sometimes found on the body of a fetus or newborn. It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair follicles, and it usually appears around sixteen weeks of gestation and is abundant by week twenty. It is normally shed before birth, around seven or eight months of gestation, but is sometimes present at birth. It disappears on its own within a few weeks.

condition wherein the ductus arteriosus fails to close after birth

Infantile reflex

human disease

group of congenital heart defects involving an abnormal spatial arrangement of any of the great vessels: superior and/or inferior venae cavae, pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins, and aorta

waxy or cheese-like white substance found coating the skin of newborn human babies

congenital disorder of nervous system

measure of the age of a pregnancy

Human disease of premature infants

abnormal accumulation of fluid in two or more fetal compartments

infant whose birth weight is larger than the 90th percentile for a given gestational age

Human disease

infection caused by pathogens that use mother-to-child transmission

intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants

eye infection shortly after birth

weight of an organism at birth

medical procedure

Respiratory failure in the newborn. (Dorland, 27th ed)

medical condition

primitive and involuntary reflex

two situations that lead to cyanosis in infants

blood collection procedure for newborns

milk secreted from the breasts of some newborn human infants of either sex

testing of newborn infants for medical conditions

genetic disease

blood transfusion in which the patient's blood or components of it are exchanged with other blood or blood products

human disease

policy of routinely testing the hearing of babies soon after birth

specialty of nursing

Human disease

Medical condition

Medical condition in newborn babies caused by drugs taken by the mother before birth

medical condition

babies whose birth weight lies below the 10th percentile for that gestational age

medical condition

ability of a fetus to survive outside the uterus

coagulation disturbance in newborns due to vitamin K deficiency

Temporal reflex action in infants usually for a period of about six months

It is a congenital form of diabetes

human disease

human disease

bacterial infection

test to assess a newborn's abilities

medical condition; teeth that emerge through the gingiva during the first month of life (the neonatal period)

Human disease

Newborn reflex

medical condition

Chronic Infantile Neurological, Cutaneous, and Articular (CINCA) syndrome is characterised by skin rash, joint involvement, chronic meningitis with granulocytes and, in some cases, sensorineural hearing loss and ocular signs

Neurological dysfunction shortly after birth