perinate
English
Noun
perinate (plural perinates)
- (biology) A member of a viviparous species from approximately one month before, to one month after, birth.
- 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, , →ISBN, page 30:
- 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 […].