Definition of primipara in English:
primipara
nounPlural primiparae prʌɪˈmɪp(ə)rəpraɪˈmɪpərə
Medicine A woman who is giving birth for the first time.
Example sentencesExamples
- We restricted the analysis to primiparae (73.5% of whom reported no previous pregnancies) because death of a previous baby may influence both the decision to conceive again and its outcome.
- Eighty one patients were multiparous, 9 had one child and 3 were primipara.
- Puerperal insanity proper comes on within one month of parturition; and, like the insanity of pregnancy, occurs most often in primiparae.
- There were no differences in age, gestational age, ratio of primiparae to pluriparae, body weight, or height between the treatment and control groups.
- Malaria is an important environmental factor which reduces fetal growth in primiparae more than multiparae living under holoendemic conditions for malaria.
Origin
Mid 19th century: modern Latin (feminine), from primus 'first' + -parus 'bringing forth' (from the verb parere).
Definition of primipara in US English:
primipara
nounpraɪˈmɪpərəprīˈmipərə
Medicine A woman who is giving birth for the first time.
Example sentencesExamples
- We restricted the analysis to primiparae (73.5% of whom reported no previous pregnancies) because death of a previous baby may influence both the decision to conceive again and its outcome.
- There were no differences in age, gestational age, ratio of primiparae to pluriparae, body weight, or height between the treatment and control groups.
- Eighty one patients were multiparous, 9 had one child and 3 were primipara.
- Malaria is an important environmental factor which reduces fetal growth in primiparae more than multiparae living under holoendemic conditions for malaria.
- Puerperal insanity proper comes on within one month of parturition; and, like the insanity of pregnancy, occurs most often in primiparae.
Origin
Mid 19th century: modern Latin (feminine), from primus ‘first’ + -parus ‘bringing forth’ (from the verb parere).