Definitions for parturient

parturient par·tu·ri·ent

Spelling: [pahr-too r-ee-uh nt, -tyoo
IPA: /pɑrˈtʊər i ənt, -ˈtyʊər-/

Parturient is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 537 anagrams from letters in parturient (aeinprrttu).

Definitions for parturient

adjective

  1. bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  2. pertaining to parturition.
  3. bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.

Origin of parturient

1585-95; Latin parturient- (stem of parturiēns) being in labor, literally, desiring to bring forth (present participle of parturīre to be about to give birth), equivalent to part(us) (past pa

Examples for parturient

Hippocrates agrees with Aristotle, and pronounces it a great relief to parturient women.

No human being, save a pregnant or parturient woman, is susceptible to the poison.

parturient women prepare to exert their muscles to the utmost in order to relieve their sufferings.

It must be confessed that they have not wholly escaped the fate that is apt to befall the progeny of parturient mountains.

There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion.

This might be done by the force of certain external conditions operating upon the parturient system.

The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes.

parturient women under such circumstances occasionally succumb to the typhoid condition into which they are thrown.

It is called dropping after calving, from its following the parturient state.

Applied to the breasts of parturient women it dries up the milk and in the same way tends to reduce any glandular enlargement.

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