delivery room

noun

1. an area in a hospital equipped for delivering babies.

2. a room or area in which deliveries are made or received, as the section of a public library where books are taken out or returned.

Word History and Origins

Origin of delivery room¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

The laboratory has areas kitted out as "real life" working wards, including a delivery room, a neonatal unit and a theatre.

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Scenarios that can be simulated include a home birth and a baby being born in a car park, then being moved with its mother to the delivery room, and then to the neonatal intensive care unit.

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“My mother, my grandmother actually was in the delivery room with me and they had on like clown suits because they were ready for the party,” Drake said.

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A decade later, by the mid-1960s, it was rare for babies to be removed from the delivery room without being individually labelled.

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"Instead of holding my wife’s hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor, whispering through a crackling phone line as she labored alone," Khalil wrote.

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