primipara
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Origin of primipara
1835–45; < Latin prīmipara, equivalent to prīmi- (combining form of prīmus first; see prime) + -para, feminine of -parus -parous
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Wilcox mentions a primipara, three months pregnant, with a double vagina and a bicornate uterus, who was safely delivered of several children.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
On April 30th the fundus of the tumor was 35 cm. above the symphysis and the uterus 11 1/2 cm.; the cervix was soft as that of a primipara at term.
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
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)
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)
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