INFANTILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infantile mean? 

• INFANTILE (adjective)
  The adjective INFANTILE has 3 senses:

1. indicating a lack of maturity

2. of or relating to infants or infancy

3. being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

  Familiarity information: INFANTILE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFANTILE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicating a lack of maturity

Synonyms:

childish; infantile

Context example:

infantile behavior

Similar:

immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to infants or infancy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

infantile paralysis

Pertainym:

infancy (the early stage of growth or development)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

Context example:

infantile games

Similar:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

 Context examples 

Most infantile fibrosarcomas have the chromosomal translocation t(12;15)(p13;q26).

(Infantile Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with infantile acute megakaryoblastic leukemia.

(MKL1/RBM15 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme arylsulfatase A. There are three forms of this disease: late infantile, juvenile, and adult.

(Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called infantile rickets, rachitis, and rickets.

(Juvenile rickets, NCI Dictionary)

Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis in which the signs and symptoms appear later in life.

(Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A patient with infantile sacrococcygeal teratoma was found to have a balanced chromosomal translocation t(12;15)(q13;q25) which fuses this gene and the SENP1 gene.

(MESDC2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with infantile sacrococcygeal teratoma.

(MESDC2/SENP1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is classified as adult or infantile.

(Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in CYP24A1 are associated with infantile hypercalcemia.

(CYP24A1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene are associated with infantile, childhood and adult hypophosphatasias and odontohypophosphatasia.

(ALPL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)