parturient
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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.
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?
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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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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
At an earlier period it was recommended to irritate the nipple in order to excite the uterus to parturient action.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis
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