Parturiency

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parturiency \Par*tu"ri*en*cy\, n.
     Parturition.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  parturiency
       n : concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
           the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
           [syn: {labor}, {labour}, {confinement}, {lying-in}, {travail},
            {childbed}]