primipara

American  

[prahy-mip-er-uh] / praɪˈmɪp ər ə /

noun

Obstetrics.

• primiparas,
  plural
• primiparae
  plural

1. a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.

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primipara British  

/ ˌprɪmɪˈpærɪtɪ, praɪˈmɪpərə /

noun

1. Also written: Para I.  obstetrics a woman who has borne only one child

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• primiparity
  noun
• primiparous
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• primiparae
  plural
• primiparas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of primipara

1835–45; < Latin prīmipara, equivalent to prīmi- (combining form of prīmus first; see prime) + -para, feminine of -parus -parous

Example Sentences

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primipara

Her labor was short and easy for a primipara, and the child was of the average size.

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

Madden gives the history of a primipara of twenty-eight, married one year, to whom he was called.

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

In the first the patient was a primipara 20 years of age, and, until the dilatation of the cervix was complete and efforts at expulsion had commenced, the uterine contractions were quite painless.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock

Mackenzie cites the instance of a woman aged thirty-two, a primipara, who had been married ten years and who always had been regular in menstruation.

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

Cazenave of Bordeaux relates a most marvelous case in which a primipara suffered in labor from an impacted head.

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