The oldest evidence of the use of bows to shoot arrows dates to about 10,000 years ago; it is based on pinewood arrows found in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg. They had shallow grooves on the base, indicating that they were shot from a bow.
Sudden infant death syndrome. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death or crib death, is the sudden unexplained death of a child less than one year of age. Diagnosis requires that the death remains unexplained even after a thorough autopsy and detailed death scene investigation. SIDS usually occurs during sleep.
Dictionary entry overview: What does infant mortality mean? â¢ INFANT MORTALITY (noun) The noun INFANT MORTALITY has 1 sense: 1. the death rate during the first year of life Familiarity information: INFANT MORTALITY used as a noun is very rare.