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Manny
A male nanny, a man employed full-time to take care of one or more children in a family home. The term manny appears to date back to the 1980s. Plural: mannies or mannys
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- Yaws Yaws: A common chronic infectious disease that occurs mainly in the warm humid regions of the tropics with…
- Immunodepression See immunosuppression
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- Vertex The top of the head. In a vertex presentation, the top of the baby's head comes first at delivery. The word…
- Ocular conjunctiva That part of the conjunctiva, a clear membrane of the eye, which covers the outer surface of the eye. The…
- Vanishing twin A twin detected in early pregnancy that is miscarried, frequently by resorption, without clinical signs or…