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2004, Armin A Brott, The New Father, Mitchell Beazley, published 2011, page 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 November 7, Sam Leith, The Guardian:
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.
vernix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
uernix in Ramminger, Johann (2015 May 22 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
