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Parturition

Parturition Meaning & Definition
Parturition Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Parturition?

[n] the process of giving birth

Synonyms | Synonyms for Parturition: birth | birthing | giving birth

Related Terms | Find terms related to Parturition: 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

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

Parturition In Webster's Dictionary

\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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