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单词 parturient
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Definition of parturient in English:

parturient

adjective pɑːˈtjʊərɪəntpɑrˈt(j)ʊriənt
technical
  • (of a woman or female mammal) about to give birth; in labour.

    hospitalized parturient women
    Example sentencesExamples
    • General practitioners and, increasingly after 1950, obstetricians attended most parturient women.
    • It may be difficult to extrapolate our findings to contemporary parturient women.
    • Civilisation made affluent women sick, while poverty and sin blighted the parturient poor.
    • These trends in health disorders may be related to the general suppression of immune function that occurs in parturient dairy cows.
    Synonyms
    expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child
noun pɑːˈtjʊərɪəntpɑrˈt(j)ʊriənt
technical
  • A parturient woman.

    anaesthesia for the parturient
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Backache after labour and delivery occurs in half of parturients irrespective of whether they received regional anaesthesia.
    • The authors studied the records of 3,461 parturients who had at least one other delivery at the study hospital and whose previous offspring's cord serum specimens were available.
    • Among anxious parturients, fetuses moved into a more active state when maternal relaxation was achieved with hypnotherapy.
    • While we do not fully subscribe to the principles of ‘natural childbirth’ we do feel that the parturient is helped both mentally and in the progress of labor if she is kept informed about her true condition and constantly reassured.
    • Many of the risk factors are highly prevalent among parturients, limiting their utility.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin parturient- 'being in labour', from the verb parturire, inceptive of parere 'bring forth'.

Rhymes

esurient, luxuriant, prurient
 
 

Definition of parturient in US English:

parturient

adjectivepärˈt(y)o͝orēəntpɑrˈt(j)ʊriənt
  • (of a woman or female mammal) about to give birth; in labor.

    hospitalized parturient women
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These trends in health disorders may be related to the general suppression of immune function that occurs in parturient dairy cows.
    • General practitioners and, increasingly after 1950, obstetricians attended most parturient women.
    • Civilisation made affluent women sick, while poverty and sin blighted the parturient poor.
    • It may be difficult to extrapolate our findings to contemporary parturient women.
    Synonyms
    expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child
nounpärˈt(y)o͝orēəntpɑrˈt(j)ʊriənt
  • A parturient woman.

    anesthesia for the parturient
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The authors studied the records of 3,461 parturients who had at least one other delivery at the study hospital and whose previous offspring's cord serum specimens were available.
    • Many of the risk factors are highly prevalent among parturients, limiting their utility.
    • While we do not fully subscribe to the principles of ‘natural childbirth’ we do feel that the parturient is helped both mentally and in the progress of labor if she is kept informed about her true condition and constantly reassured.
    • Backache after labour and delivery occurs in half of parturients irrespective of whether they received regional anaesthesia.
    • Among anxious parturients, fetuses moved into a more active state when maternal relaxation was achieved with hypnotherapy.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin parturient- ‘being in labor’, from the verb parturire, inceptive of parere ‘bring forth’.

 
 
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