parturient
Americanadjective
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bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
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pertaining to parturition.
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bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.
adjective
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of or relating to childbirth
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giving birth
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producing or about to produce a new idea, etc
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of parturient
1585–95; < Latin parturient- (stem of parturiēns ) being in labor, literally, desiring to bring forth (present participle of parturīre to be about to give birth), equivalent to part ( us ) (past participle of parere to bring forth, bear) + -uri- desiderative suffix + -ent- -ent
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Example Sentences
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Surgeons Watson recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, if we would really adopt the opinion that the increasing hospitalization of parturient women is not an improvement, is it a development which depends at all on us obstetricians, or the medical profession?
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor economic conditions with insufficient housing explain the conditions in Germany, because there the parturient woman may have her baby in a good public hospital without any charge.
From Time Magazine Archive
All those vehement cries of the critics which we have brought together were but the sharp pangs and throes of a parturient language in the natural progress of a long-protracted birth.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
That form of congestion of the brain known as parturient apoplexy, or parturient paresis, which is so frequently associated with the period of calving is described in another part of this work.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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