parturient

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Parturient women prepare to exert their muscles to the utmost in order to relieve their sufferings.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles

Parturient laminitis it is that offers us the most striking illustration of the truth that a poisoned state of the blood-stream is a sure factor in the causation of an attack.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

Parturient women frequently escape infection when the erysipelatous disorder is of the so-called medical type.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

When first his form arose erect on earth, Parturient nature hail'd the wondrous birth, With fairest limbs and finest fibres wrought, And framed for vast and various toils of thought.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Parturient, p�r-tū′ri-ent, adj. bringing, or about to bring, forth young: fruitful.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various