parturient

American  

[pahr-toor-ee-uhnt, -tyoor-] / pɑrˈtʊər i ənt, -ˈtyʊər- /

adjective

1. bearing or about to bear young; travailing.

2. pertaining to parturition.

3. bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.

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parturient British  

/ pɑːˈtjʊərɪənt /

adjective

1. of or relating to childbirth

2. giving birth

3. producing or about to produce a new idea, etc

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Other Word Forms

• parturiency noun
• postparturient adjective

Etymology

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 participle of parere to bring forth, bear) + -uri- desiderative suffix + -ent- -ent

Example Sentences

Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

From Forbes • Apr. 23, 2015

However, if we would really adopt the opinion that the increasing hospitalization of parturient women is not an improvement, is it a development which depends at all on us obstetricians, or the medical profession?

From Time Magazine Archive

Surgeons Watson recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poor economic conditions with insufficient housing explain the conditions in Germany, because there the parturient woman may have her baby in a good public hospital without any charge.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bisischial diameter at the outlet of the parturient canal of 7 centimetres or less is an indication for section; so are certain tumours that block the delivery of the child.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin