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EARLY CHILDHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The early stage of growth or development
Synonyms:
babyhood; early childhood; infancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("early childhood" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "early childhood"):
oral phase; oral stage ((psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting)
Context examples:
Autism is a disorder that is usually diagnosed in early childhood.
(Autism, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
These results led the researchers to conclude that early childhood exposure to air pollutants may convey a higher risk for developmental delays, compared to similar exposures in the womb.
(Kids living near major roads at higher risk of developmental delays, National Institutes of Health)
For example, MELAS Syndrome is a severe multi-system disorder causing progressive loss of mental and movement abilities, which usually becomes apparent in early childhood.
(Mitochondrial diseases could be treated with gene therapy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Risk factors for developing asthma include recurrent wheezing in early childhood and sensitivity to some types of common allergens, such as cockroach and mouse.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
Clinical signs present in early childhood and include asymptomatic plaques of the epibulbar conjunctivae and oral mucosa.
(Hereditary Benign Intraepithelial Dyskeratosis, NCI Thesaurus)
It said fortified infant cereals were relatively cheap in high- and upper middle-income countries but very expensive in low-income countries, where undernutrition in early childhood is most prevalent.
(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)
Any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood.
(Permanent Tooth, NCI Thesaurus)
Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Deafness in early childhood is known to lead to lasting changes in how sounds are processed in the brain, but new research shows that even mild-to-moderate levels of hearing loss in young children can lead to similar changes.
(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Medical University of Vienna have used a novel approach to identify which specific allergens can predict the transition from IgE sensitisation in early childhood to the development of respiratory allergy later in life.
(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
