Glossary

Reprinted with permission from "Your Premature Baby and Child" by Amy E. Tracy and Dianne I. Maroney (Berkley, 1999)

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Toy block

Home monitor

 Equipment used to measure a babys heart and breathing rate

Hyaline membrane disease

 A breathing disorder of premature infants caused by the lack of surfactant in the alveoli of the lung

Hydrocephalus

 The excessive accumulation of fluid in the ventricles (chambers) of the brain

Hyperbilirubinemia

 An excess of bilirubin in the blood

Hypoxia

 The lack of oxygen in the body

 

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