prenatally

English

Etymology

From prenatal +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈneɪtəli/

Adverb

prenatally (not comparable)

  1. Before birth.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 62:
      Tall, muscular, golden-skinned, he ranted bitterly about the injustice done to him pre-natally.
    • 2024 January 12, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Does Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome Amount to Eugenics?”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      It has been estimated that about two out of three fetuses with prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome are aborted in the United States.

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