Failure to thrive is a medical term referring to an individual's failure to gain or maintain body weight appropriate to age. This can be the result of disease processes or of caregiver neglect. There are numerous gastrointestinal problems associated with the stomach and digestive system (such as...
Failure to Thrive is a condition where an infant or child does not grow or develop as predicted based on their age, gender, genetic potential, or predisposing medical condition(s). The term failure to thrive first appeared in theliterature in 1899, where it was noted that some infants “cea...
"Failure to thrive" is a descriptive term, not a diagnosis. There is no clear agreement on definition; one commonly used is, "when his or her rate of growth fails to meet the potential expected for a child of that age." 1 As it is difficult to predict potential, such a definition ...
The term “failure to thrive” (FTT) has been used to describe older adults who were once active and are now socially withdrawn, lonely, bored, and depressed. FTT in older adults has been described as “a syndrome manifested by weight loss greater than 5% of baseline, decreased appetite, p...
Historically, 'failure to thrive' was a term used to describe the malnourished and depressed condition of many babies living in institutions, implying not only growth deficits, but also disorders of behaviour and development. The syndrome was later acknowledged to occurin infants living at home as...
Description Failure to thrive is the term generally used to describe a syndrome in which an infant or child does not grow at a rate considered to be healthy. It is generally diagnosed based on size ratio, whether it is weight-for-height, weight-for-age, or height-for-age [ 7 ]. ...
FTTis the medical abbreviation forfailure to thrive. What does failure to thrive mean? It is amedical termmost commonly used when a person's weight or rate of weight gain is significantly lower than individuals of the same age and sex. FTT can manifest in children and adults. It is a mu...
The term "failure to thrive" is frequently used to describe older adults whose independence is declining. The term was exported from pediatrics in the 1970s and is used to describe older adults with various concurrent chronic diseases, functional impairments, or both. Despite this heterogeneity, fa...
(redirected from failure to thrive syndrome)Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia. fail·ure (fāl′yər) n. 1. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends: the failure of an experiment. 2. One that fails: a failure at one's career. 3. The condition...
Cognitive and Educational Attainments at School Age of Children Who Failed to Thrive in Infancy: A Population-based Study A 1-year cohort of children born at term in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1987/8 was screened for failure to thrive in infancy using a conditional longitudinal st... Robert,F....