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parturient

/pahr-toor-ee-uhnt, -tyoor-/US // pɑrˈtʊər i ənt, -ˈtyʊər- //UK // (pɑːˈtjʊərɪənt) //

孕妇,孕产妇,伤员,濒临死亡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
    • : pertaining to parturition.
    • : bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.

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Examples

  • 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.

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

  • In former years, puerperal fever took the lives of from five to fifty of each one hundred parturient mothers.

  • It was an Arab custom in certain places to build a hut outside the camp, where the parturient woman had to stay for a time.