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infant

A child below full legal age; see minor.
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To better understand the disease's apparent link to the developing and still immature infant immune system, researchers in this study analyzed the livers of infants diagnosed with biliary atresia.
Immune system's natural killer cells linked to infant liver disease by Asian News International
In an April, 2008, report in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in Washington concluded that "extending intensive care to the most immature infants would entail considerable suffering, resource use, and cost in order to benefit only a small proportion of infants.
MILLION-DOLLAR BABIES by Spencer E. Ante / BusinessWeek
1) As expected, the smallest and most immature infants have the greatest long-term problems.
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