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INFANTILE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicating a lack of maturity

Example:

infantile behavior

Synonyms:

childish; infantile

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

Example:

infantile games

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to infants or infancy

Example:

infantile paralysis

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

infancy (the early stage of growth or development)

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 Context examples: 

A rare infantile hemangioma in the airway, usually in the subglottic area or trachea.

(Airway Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain allelic variants of the NOS1 gene are associated with susceptibility to either infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis or Parkinson's disease.

(NOS1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with hemangioma capillary infantile.

(ANTXR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Translocations and mutations involving the gene are associated with X-linked infantile spasm syndrome 2.

(CDKL5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare disorder characterized by recurrent infantile infections and absence of neutrophils in the peripheral blood.

(Congenital neutropenia, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include congenital cataracts, infantile glaucoma, intellectual disability, hypotonia, aminoaciduria and renal tubular dysfunction.

(Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma, desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma, desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma, and dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor.

(Neuronal and Mixed Neuronal-Glial Tumors, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Mutation of the gene is associated with familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, Muckle-Wells syndrome, and chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and articular syndrome.

(NLRP3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called congenital neutropenia, genetic infantile agranulocytosis, infantile genetic agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, and Kostmann neutropenia.

(Kostmann syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Also called congenital neutropenia, genetic infantile agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, Kostmann neutropenia, and Kostmann syndrome.

(Infantile genetic agranulocytosis, NCI Dictionary)