nullipara
/nʌˈlɪp(ə)rə
/noun (plural nulliparae /nʌˈlɪp(ə)riː/) Medicine & Zoology
A woman (or female animal) that has never given birth. Compare with primipara.The key finding was a significant reduction in the overall obstetric intervention rate, for otherwise healthy nulliparae would previously have received augmentation of labour.
Derivatives
nulliparous
/ adjective ...- Mothers with a history of breech delivery are just as likely as nulliparous patients to achieve vaginal delivery in subsequent pregnancies.
- Here, the duty midwife or clerk opened the next sequentially numbered, double packed, sealed envelope, taken from a box marked either nulliparous or multiparous.
- In nulliparous women, the diagnosis should be considered when the second stage of labor exceeds two hours without regional anesthesia and three hours if anesthesia was used.
Origin
Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Latin nullus 'none' + -para (feminine of -parus), from parere 'bear children'.