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Synonyms for parturient
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pahr-too r-ee-uh nt, -tyoo r- |
| Phonetic Transcription : pɑrˈtʊər i ənt, -ˈtyʊər- |
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Définition of parturient
Origin :- "about to give birth," 1590s, from Latin parturientem (nominative parturiens), present participle of parturire "be in labor," literally "desire to bring forth," desiderative of parere "to bear" (see pare). Related: Parturiency.
- adj pregnant
- It is called dropping after calving, from its following the parturient state.
- Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
- There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848 » by Various
- Parturient women under such circumstances occasionally succumb to the typhoid condition into which they are thrown.
- Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
- It must be confessed that they have not wholly escaped the fate that is apt to befall the progeny of parturient mountains.
- Extract from : « Pot-Boilers » by Clive Bell
- The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes.
- Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of the Horse » by United States Department of Agriculture
- Hippocrates agrees with Aristotle, and pronounces it a great relief to parturient women.
- Extract from : « A World of Wonders » by Various
- No human being, save a pregnant or parturient woman, is susceptible to the poison.
- Extract from : « Medical Essays » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- This might be done by the force of certain external conditions operating upon the parturient system.
- Extract from : « Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation » by Robert Chambers
- Parturient women prepare to exert their muscles to the utmost in order to relieve their sufferings.
- Extract from : « The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals » by Charles Darwin
- Applied to the breasts of parturient women it dries up the milk and in the same way tends to reduce any glandular enlargement.
- Extract from : « The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines » by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
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