Definition

1. Adjective:
   • In the process of giving birth; about to give birth or having recently given birth: Describes a female animal or human who is in labor or has just delivered offspring.
   • Relating to or involved in the act of childbirth: Pertaining to the physiological process of parturition (birth).

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The farmer monitored the parturient cow throughout the night.
  • The hospital has a special ward for parturient women.
  • The parturient uterus undergoes significant changes.

Advanced Usage

• "Parturient canal": The birth canal through which the fetus passes during delivery.
  • The fetus descended through the parturient canal.
• "Parturient paresis": A medical condition in cattle, also known as milk fever, associated with calving.
  • The veterinarian treated the cow for parturient paresis.

Variants and Related Words

• Parturition (n): The action or process of giving birth.
  • The parturition was quick and without complications.
• Parturifacient (adj/n): (Adjective) Inducing labor; (Noun) a drug that induces labor.
  • Oxytocin is a common parturifacient.

Synonyms

• In labor: Experiencing childbirth contractions.
• Gravid: Pregnant (specifically carrying developing young, but not necessarily in the act of birthing).
• Puerperal: Relating to the period immediately after childbirth.

Related Phrases and Collocations

• Parturient mother: A mother who is in the process of giving birth.
  • The parturient mother was moved to the delivery room.
• Parturient state: The condition of being in labor.
  • She entered the parturient state in the early morning hours.

Adjective

1. giving birth
   • a parturient heifer
2. of or relating to or giving birth
   • parturient pangs
   • the parturient uterus