parturient
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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?
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
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
The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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