parturient

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Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

From Forbes • Apr. 23, 2015

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

I have used it as an emetic, though, rarely; as, for ordinary circumstances, there are preferable agents at command; but for some time I have abandoned its employment as a parturient for the bitch.

From The Dog by Dinks