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An infant; a newborn child.

- blue b. a child born cyanotic because of a congenital cardiac or pulmonary defect causing incomplete oxygenation of the blood.

- blueberry muffin b. an infant with purple skin lesions the appearance of which has been compared to that of a blueberry muffin. Lesions are caused by dermal erythropoiesis and are seen in congenital infections such as cytomegalovirus infection, toxoplasmosis, or rubella. The infection interferes with the normal production of blood cells in the bone marrow.

- collodion b. [MIM*146600] a newborn child with lamellar ichthyosis; at birth, the skin is bright red, shiny, translucent, and drawn tight, giving a distorted appearance (as if having been painted with collodion) of immobilization of the face; contraction of the skin causes ectropion, a pressed down appearance of the nose, and a gaping of the mouth and the labia; autosomal dominant inheritance.

- test-tube b. popular term for a b. born after uterine implantation of a maternal ovum fertilized in vitro.

ba·by 'bā-bē n, pl babies

1) an extremely young child esp INFANT

2) an extremely young animal

baby adj

ba·by·hood -bē-.hu̇d n

ba·by·ish -ish adj