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
During this period unmarried parturient women receive pecuniary assistance from the hospital to enable them to obtain a place in which to be confined.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Custom of Indian Women.—The ease with which Indian women perform the parturient act is proverbial.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
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