nursemaid's Usage Examples:

Symptoms of nursemaid's elbow include immediate pain in the injured arm, refusal or inability to move the injured arm, creating a condition called pseudo-paralysis, persistent crying, refusal to play, and anxiety.

Luckily I also had a willing nursemaid in house.

She wore white and smiled, more like a nursemaid than the woman whose job was to collect souls.

Unfortunately, nursemaid's elbow commonly occurs when an obstinate child is forcibly pulled along or lifted by the forearm by a parent or older sibling.

"If you please, your excellency, Petrusha has brought some papers," said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a child's little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water.

The diagnosis of nursemaid's elbow is made through a physical examination by the child's physician.

You have been playing nursemaid for two days.

Synonyms:

wet-nurse, woman, amah, adult female, dry nurse, nanny, keeper, mammy, nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse,

Antonyms:

male parent, father, bottlefeed, starve, man,