multipara

American  

[muhl-tip-er-uh] / mʌlˈtɪp ər ə /

noun

Obstetrics.

plural

multiparas, multiparae

1. a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.

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multipara British  

/ mʌlˈtɪpərə /

noun

1. a woman who has given birth to more than one viable fetus or living child Compare multigravida

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Etymology

Origin of multipara

1870–75; noun use of feminine of New Latin multiparus multiparous

Example Sentences

When four months pregnant the mother, a multipara of 30, was startled by a black and white collie dog suddenly pushing against her and rushing out when she opened the door.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock

Harris cites the instance of a woman of thirty, a multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored by a cow; her intestines and omentum protruded through the rip and the uterus was bruised.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The sedentary multipara, curled up in her boudoir on a rainy afternoon, finds nothing to her taste in his grim tales.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

In Dillenberg, Germany, in 1779, a multipara was gored by an ox at her sixth month of pregnancy; the horn entered the right epigastric region, three inches from the linea alba, and perforated the uterus.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)