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parturient

[pahr-toor-ee-uhnt, -tyoor-] / pɑrˈtʊər i ənt, -ˈtjʊər- /


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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.

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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.

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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?

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SYLPHS! as you hover on ethereal wing,      Brood the green children of parturient Spring!—

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin

The same occurs in labour-pains, the exertion of the parturient woman relieves the violence of the pains for a time, which recur again soon after she has ceased to use those exertions.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin




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