EARLY CHILDHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does early childhood mean? 

• EARLY CHILDHOOD (noun)
  The noun EARLY CHILDHOOD has 1 sense:

1. the early stage of growth or development

  Familiarity information: EARLY CHILDHOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARLY CHILDHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The early stage of growth or development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

babyhood; early childhood; infancy

Hypernyms ("early childhood" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Meronyms (parts of "early childhood"):

oral phase; oral stage ((psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting)

 Context examples 

Early childhood manifestations include hypoglycemia and hepatomegaly.

(Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Very Long-Chain Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

It is typically seen at birth, but can develop in early childhood or later in life.

(Epidermal Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)

The cancer often begins in early childhood.

(Neuroblastoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A rare, slow-growing, painless tumor of infancy and early childhood that usually affects the distal extremities.

(Lipofibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common form of the skin disorder lentigo, characterized by a single or multiple benign, pigmented macules of unknown etiology that are present at birth or develop in early childhood.

(Lentigo Simplex, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings also help explain why people who are malnourished in early childhood go on to have higher rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease as adults.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

Because EBV is most often encountered in early childhood, avoiding infection is practically impossible.

(Epstein-Barr virus protein can “switch on” risk genes for autoimmune diseases, National Institutes of Health)

This developmental skill begins in infancy and early childhood.

(Gross Motor Skill, NCI Thesaurus)

He said: 'This study raises questions as to whether at least some aspects of screen-based media use in early childhood may provide sub-optimal stimulation during this rapid, formative state of brain development.

(Too Much Screen Time Changes Structure of Toddlers' Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The results of this research suggest that it is important to train attention from early childhood onward.

(Study reveals attention training improves intelligence and brain function of children, University of Granada)