neonatal respiratory distress syndrome : Lung disorder of neonates, particularly ____________ infants, in which certain cells of the lungs fail to mature at birth to cause lung collapse that can result in suffocation, abbreviated NRDS

Fill in the missing word in the definition for the key term.


premature

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