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Nurse Origins

Where do we get the word nurse from? The term is related to the modern word nourish, to feed, is derived from the 5th-century Latin nutrice –a wet-nurse (a woman hired to breastfeed an infant when a mother could not–or chose not to–do so.) It has origins in the word nuzzle, or nosell, for noseling (or nose-long); to push […]