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
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
We need to remember, as Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes tells us, "how kindly Nature deals with the parturient female, when she is not immersed in the virulent atmosphere of an impure lying-in hospital."
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
Custom of Indian Women.—The ease with which Indian women perform the parturient act is proverbial.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
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