See Also: Children of the dark(health)
dark(1)(dictionary)
dark(dictionary)
dark(2)(dictionary)
dark 1, adjective(dictionary)
dark T2 lesion(medicine)
dark adaptation(medicine)
dark cell(medicine)
In the Dark - Poker(gambling)
dark current(medicine)

ie (iou) and Children of the dark (health)


ie (iou)



-ie suffix. [i]
Var. (esp. Scot. & Austral.) of -Y6, as in birdie, doggie, roughie, sickie; used also in independent formations, as bookie, movie.

Children of the dark (health)


Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary sensitivity to sunlight that ordinary sun exposure results in the development of skin cancer at a very early age. Children with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) can only play Outdoors safely after nightfall.