parturient
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
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
A piece of rattan12 is taken by one of the women present and, after being slightly burnt, is extinguished by the midwife and held close to the person13 of the parturient.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
In former years, puerperal fever took the lives of from five to fifty of each one hundred parturient mothers.
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
Vocabulary lists containing parturient
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word