nulliparous

[ nuh-lip-er-uhs ]

adjective

1. Medicine/Medical. of, relating to, or being a woman who has never, or never before, given birth:

   Overwhelming anxiety about delivering her first child can have a devastating impact on a nulliparous woman's life.

2. Zoology. of, relating to, or being any female in the animal kingdom that has never given birth or laid eggs:

   We conducted sterilization experiments to create a community of nulliparous mosquitoes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nulliparous¹

nulli- ( def ) + -parous ( def )

Example Sentences

The next stage of the analysis required thinking about “parous” realities—those that can generate other realities—and “nulliparous” realities—those that cannot simulate offspring realities.

From Scientific American

If the physical hypothesis was true, then the probability that we were living in a nulliparous universe would be easy to calculate: it would be 100 percent.

From Scientific American

Kipping then showed that even in the simulation hypothesis, most of the simulated realities would be nulliparous.

From Scientific American

Ms. Wright’s language can range from the consciously quotidian to the self-reflectively baroque: “Limerance,” “neotenous,” “nulliparous” and “flensed” have all seeded her work.

From New York Times

The idea is to reduce preventable C-sections in first-time, low-risk pregnancies, or the “nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex patient population,” and to encourage natural or vaginal births.

From Washington Times