vernix

Noun

vernix (uncountable)

1. Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.
   • The cheesy stuff is called vernix, and it's a natural moisturizer that protects the baby's skin while she's in the womb.2004, Armin A Brott, The New Father, Mitchell Beazley, published 2011, page 21
   • 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.2009 November 7, Sam Leith, The Guardian