VERNIX.—The fatty substance deposited over the skin of the newly born infant.
VIABLE.—Capable of living.
VILLI (singular villus).—The microscopic, finger-like processes which hang from one of the surfaces of the placenta and are surrounded by the mother's blood.
VISCERA.—The internal organs which occupy the cavities of the chest and the abdomen.
VULVA.—The folds of tissue which surround the outlet of the vagina.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Prospective Mother, by J. Morris Slemons