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kernicterus (medicine) and fluky(2) (iou)


kernicterus (medicine)


kernicterus
<paediatrics> Disorder due to jaundice in a newborn baby with high blood levels of the pigment bilirubin that is deposited in the brain resulting in damage. The level of bilirubin is monitored in newborns to determine whether treatment is needed to prevent kernicterus. With brain affected, it is also called bilirubin encephalopathy.


fluky(2) (iou)



fluky adjective2. ['flu:ki] Also flukey. M19.
[from FLUKE noun3 + -Y1.]
Lucky, obtained by chance rather than skill. Of wind etc.: erratic, uncertain.
flukily adverb L19.
flukiness noun L19.