kangaroo care

kangaroo care

noun
a method of caring for a premature baby in which the baby is periodically held against a parent's bare chest.
Also called kan·ga·roo·ing [kang-guh-roo-ing] .
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Kangaroo care is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Main Entry:  kangaroo care
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  a type of care for a premature infant in which skin-to-skin contact is maintained, esp. with the mother, for much of the day
Example:  Kangaroo care seems to help premature babies by somewhat mimicking being in the womb.
Usage:  kangaroo v
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