parousadj.
/ˈparəs/, U.S. /ˈpɛrəs/ Medicine and Zoology.
Of a woman or a female animal, or the uterus: that has borne offspring. Contrasted with nulliparous.
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fruited1612
multiparous1849
pluriparous1890
parous1898
1898 G. E. Herman Dis. Women ix. 87 In text-books of anatomy it is stated that the parous uterus is normally larger than the virgin uterus.
1935 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 225 7 One animal.., although obviously parous, was neither lactating nor in post-partum œstrus.
1977 Lancet 16 July 125/1 Among the 43 Tanka women for whom case-histories were found, 6 were single or nulliparous, 1 was parous but did not breast-feed, and 2 were parous but the lactational history was incomplete.
1992 Saudi Med. Jrnl. 12 488/1 Better spacing, advice and family planning should be provided especially for highly parous mothers.
2002 Med. & Vet. Entomol. 16 266 Females [sc. fleas] were predominantly nulliparous in November (80%), after which the proportion of parous females increased gradually.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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