Meaning of PARTURITION
| Pronunciation: | | `pârtû'rishun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the process of giving birth |
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| | Synonyms: | | birth, birthing, giving birth |
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| | See Also: | | accouchement, biological process, brooding, calving, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, egg laying, farrow, farrowing, hatch, hatching, incubation, labor, labour, laying, lying-in, organic process, parturiency, reproduction, travail, vaginal birth | |
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| | Definition: | | \Par`tu*ri"tion\, n. [L. parturitio, fr. parturire:
cf. F. parturition. See {Parturient}.]
1. The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young;
the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
2. That which is brought forth; a birth. [Obs.]
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| | Related Terms: | | accouchement, babyhood, bearing, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth |
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