Postpartum vs Null - What's the difference?
postpartum | null |
(of a mother) after giving birth
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective postpartum
is (of a mother) after giving birth.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.postpartum
English
Alternative forms
* post-partumAdjective
(-)Usage notes
While postpartum narrowly refers to a mother after giving birth,'' the similar term postnatal maybe be used either to contrast, referring to the baby after ''being born, or may be used synonymously, also referring to the mother.Synonyms
* postnatal (of a mother)Antonyms
* antepartum * postnatal (of a child)Derived terms
* postpartum depression * postpartum hemorrhageReferences
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.