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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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