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Newborn vs Vernix - What's the difference?

newborn | vernix |

As nouns the difference between newborn and vernix

is that newborn is a recently born baby while vernix is (medicine) vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.

As an adjective newborn

is recently born.

newborn

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • recently born.
  • born anew, reborn.

    • Noun

  • A recently born baby.

    • Synonyms

    * neonate

    vernix

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.
  • *2004 , Armin A Brott, The New Father , Mitchell Beazley 2011, p. 21:
  • *:The cheesy stuff is called vernix , and it's a natural moisturizer that protects the baby's skin while she's in the womb.
  • *2009 , Sam Leith, The Guardian , 7 Nov 2009:
  • *:But when – like Troy in the end of the film – you are presented for the first time with an angry, purple, bloody, vernix -covered, shit-smeared, breathing human being, everything changes.
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