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The process of giving birth
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parturition
Word definitions for parturition in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Latin parturitionem (nominative parturitio ), noun of action from past participle stem of parturire (see parturient ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of giving birth; childbirth.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the process of giving birth [syn: birth , giving birth , birthing ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Parturition " is the 23rd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager , airing on the UPN network. It is the seventh episode of the second season and is the second of three Voyager episodes directed by Star Trek: The Next ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parturition \Par`tu*ri"tion\, n. [L. parturitio, fr. parturire: cf. F. parturition. See Parturient .] The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth. That which is brought forth; a birth. [Obs.]
Usage examples of parturition.
The patient, it appears, had a large exostosis on the body of the pubes which, during parturition, was forced through the walls of the uterus and bladder, resulting in death.
In her sixth pregnancy she had miscalculated her time, and, in consequence, her uterus ruptured in an unexpected parturition, but she recovered and had several subsequent pregnancies.
If retroflexion is due to a chronic enlargement of the uterus, caused by abortion or parturition, the patient suffers from an immoderate menstrual flow.
She had been thirty-six hours in parturition, and by evisceration and craniotomy was delivered of a child weighing 16 pounds.
In some of these birth-mills a full-term parturition, or even a fetiparous one, can be downright dangerous, believe me.
Staples records a case of pregnancy and parturition with congenital stricture of the vagina.
It had by-products which he merely noted and filed for reference - such as the reason why Rudi's creativity gave him agony (his deep unconscious saw it as parturition, and that brings pain), and the reason why he chose to attempt suicide by hara-kiri (it represented a Caesarean delivery on the cross-identity level of his mind).
Their gestation period was abnormally extended because the embryo had to grow virtually to maturity before parturition, and it was rare for an adult to survive the reproduction of more than three offspring.
Then she went inside, took down the two volumes of The Complete and Concise Home Doctor, opened them out on the table, and guiltlessly read the sections about reproduction, venereal infections, parturition, and the scrotum.
It is also useful in accelerating parturition, when the labour pains of women have come on.
It had gone on to describe the disadvantages of possessing two hearts, especially when the possessor was a gravid female-mode Hudlar nearing parturition, and the nerve network which controlled the involuntary muscle system was maintaining a delicate balance between the impulses to four hearts, two parental and two embryonic.