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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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
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
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
What disturbances might not such an organism carry into the body of a parturient woman, after passing into the peritoneum, the lymphatics or the blood through the maternal placenta!
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
Its blind stirrings, its apparently aimless seeking hither and thither, are but the driving of an instinct to be done with its parturient function toward these principles of future life and power.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
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