See Also: Prematurity(medicine)
prematurity(dictionary)
retinopathy of prematurity(medicine)

prematurity (iou)



prematurity noun. E17.
[from PRE- 1 + MATURITY, after French prematurite.]
Early ripening or flowering in a plant. E17-E18.
Undue earliness or haste; hastiness, precipitancy. E18.
J. S. Bristowe Their early sickliness and prematurity of death.
Early development, esp. of mental or physical faculties; precociousness. L18.
Medicine. The fact or condition of giving birth to a premature infant. L19.