internatal

Between pregnancies or births.

Adjective medicine, sciences

  1. Between pregnancies or births.
    • Poor internatal care will undo the benefit derived from even the best prenatal care. - 1936, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal:
    • However, analyses of internatal intervals by the number of live births a woman had experienced discloses nothing about the sequence of events; […] - 1948, Population Studies:
    • 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...

Origin

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

Adjective medicine, sciences

  1. Between the buttocks; intergluteal.
    • […]; 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...
    • Vegetations situated around the anus augmented the difficulty of defaecation, and then fistulous tracts opened by which seropurulent discharge escaped into the internatal sulcus. - 1898, New York Medical Journal:
    • 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. - 1957, International Medical Digest:

Origin

From inter- + Latin natis (“rump”) + -al.