internatal

English

Etymology 1

inter- + Latin nātālis (“relating to birth”).

Adjective

internatal (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Between pregnancies or births.
   • 1936, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal:

     Poor internatal care will undo the benefit derived from even the best prenatal care.

   • 1948, Population Studies:

     However, analyses of internatal intervals by the number of live births a woman had experienced discloses nothing about the sequence of events; […]

   • 1971, Myra Woolf, Great Britain. General Register Office, Family intentions an enquiry undertaken for the General Register Office

     Again, fewer of the women married after 1959 had achieved their expected family size at the time of the investigation so that there is greater scope for fluctuations in the lengths of the internatal intervals ― but the general conclusion holds even for this group.

   • 2013, Robin G. Jordan, Janet Engstrom, Julie Marfell, Cindy L. Farley, Prenatal and Postnatal Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     Educational interactions during women's routine healthcare visits during internatal care (the time from the birth of one child that extends through the birth of the next child) can be used to maximize positive health benefits.

Etymology 2

inter- + Latin natis (“rump”) + -al.

Adjective

internatal (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Between the buttocks; intergluteal.
   • 1868, The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 276:

     […] ; the gluteo-femoral crease does not correspond with that of the opposite side, being prolonged down upon the thigh, or not running at a right angle with the internatal fold, the latter of which inclines toward the affected side.

   • 1898, New York Medical Journal:

     Vegetations situated around the anus augmented the difficulty of defaecation, and then fistulous tracts opened by which seropurulent discharge escaped into the internatal sulcus.

   • 1957, International Medical Digest:

     It is altogether probable that some of these broken loose bits of hair find a more or less permanent resting place in the internatal cleft.

   • 2008, Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Attila Csendes, Markus W. Büchler, Oliver James Garden, General Surgery: Principles and International Practice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 759:

     Keratin plugs and other follicle debris may contribute to the inflammation of the hair in the midline internatal cleft pits.

   • 2011, Peter Mattei, Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 468:

     While soft tissue edema associated with an acute abscess in the internatal cleft may hide the causative pilonidal sinus, the presence of an abscess in the superior central or slightly lateral sacrococcygeal position is almost invariably associated with pilonidal sinus disease.