adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a premature baby (= born before the normal time )
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Lesley’s baby was three weeks premature.
a premature birth (= when a baby is born before the normal time )
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Many babies survive premature births.
a premature halt (= one that is sooner than expected )
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Bad weather brought the game to a premature halt.
a premature infant (= born too early )
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The hospital provides life-saving care to premature infants.
premature death technical (= earlier than people usually die )
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The disease is a significant cause of premature death in the developing world.
premature retirement (= before the natural or proper time )
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Injury forced him into premature retirement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
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Tommy's Campaign supports research into helping premature babies .
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They ignore the minor expense of health care for pregnant women, but pay the massive expenses of premature babies .
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Conductors visit premature baby units and decide which children to accept.
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It's hard work but she copes Voice over Saving premature babies has its costs.
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They are being kept in incubators, normally used for premature babies .
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This result might indicate that the body clock is slow to mature in premature babies .
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Pat is working as a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies .
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Worse still, one third of premature babies due or suffer some form of handicap throughout life.
birth
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Low birth weight usually indicates premature births that are also often immature births.
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They also noticed numerous miscarriages, premature births , and birth defects-including gross malformations-among soldiers' children.
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The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year.
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And there was no doubt that Kalchu, though younger, had dealt with a great many premature births before this one.
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They suffered the heartbreak of losing three children through premature births .
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Immature births are often, but not necessarily, premature births.
death
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Introduction Smoking remains the commonest cause of premature death and ill health in the United Kingdom.
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The report found that moderate exercise reduces the risk of premature death and promotes psychological well-being by reducing depression and anxiety.
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Deaths before the age of 65, so-called premature deaths, are comparatively rare.
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My father, Simon C.. DeVos, suffered several heart attacks before his premature death at the age of fifty-nine.
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The reason for a lot of these premature deaths was that their owners did not sufficiently understand the importance of cash flow.
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If you count the savings to pension funds from premature deaths , tobacco is nothing short of a windfall for the states.
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For the whole community this marks the return of infections and, for many, a premature death .
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Of those 1 million premature deaths , 500, 000&038;.
ejaculation
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Even Rick's problem with premature ejaculation got guffaws.
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But she can not really fail like a man who is impotent or suffers from premature ejaculation .
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In the first half it was a case of premature ejaculation .
end
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The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end .
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Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end .
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With the premature end of apprenticeship came abolitionist anticipation of a new era of orderly progress in liberty.
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It looked on Saturday as if they had declared a premature end to the season, in any case.
infant
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We believe that a multicentre trial with clearly defined outcome measures is necessary to recruit an adequate number of premature infants .
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Naturally, this is much more difficult for the parents of a premature infant .
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In newborns, especially premature infants , this liver enzyme system is not fully developed or functional.
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When premature infants who are unresponsive are taken out of the incubator, she usually takes over their care.
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An understanding of how small premature infants develop compared with babies born at term can also help this relationship.
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Parents have an easier time adapting to premature infants who are more responsive.
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In one study, the half-life of caffeine in premature infants ranged from 41 to 231 hours.
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All these observations suggest that we should be careful about recommending increased stimulation at home for the premature infant .
mortality
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This term relates to the effect upon natural lifespan of a decrease in premature mortality .
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As premature mortality decreases, he argues, more people will live to the limits of this natural lifespan.
retirement
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It lasted until 1879, when ill health compelled his premature retirement .
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Pain of a rather more tangible nature brought about Ricky Ellcock's tragically premature retirement .
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This problem is much worse for those who are forced into premature retirement through redundancy.
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Refusing the offer of the Interior portfolio, he had announced his premature retirement from public service.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alcoholism is one of the major causes of premature death.
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Her baby was premature and weighed only 2kg.
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It has been proved that sunbathing causes premature ageing of the skin.
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It would be premature to conclude that Wilson will lose the election.
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Payton's premature death was caused by lung cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And just exactly how many weeks premature is this baby?
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But I caught myself, decided not to make premature judgments, and tried to listen as sympathetically as I could.
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Even so, Mr Mieno seems in no mood to be pushed into premature easing.
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I wanted everything to advance at its own pace-no abrupt moves, no premature gestures.
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Naturally, this is much more difficult for the parents of a premature infant.
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They looked empty and forlorn as if they had not yet adjusted themselves to their premature change of life.
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Traffic was at an angry crawl, a dazzling confusion of lights and wet reflections in the premature darkness.