parturient
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Surgeons Watson recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor economic conditions with insufficient housing explain the conditions in Germany, because there the parturient woman may have her baby in a good public hospital without any charge.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, if we would really adopt the opinion that the increasing hospitalization of parturient women is not an improvement, is it a development which depends at all on us obstetricians, or the medical profession?
From Time Magazine Archive
The outcome of modern investigation tends, however, to prove that the puerperal poison is of a septic nature, and that the usual points of introduction of the poison are the lesions of the parturient canal.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
It must be confessed that they have not wholly escaped the fate that is apt to befall the progeny of parturient mountains.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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