parturiency

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parturiency - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

parturiency - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  parturiency
      n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of
           contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for
           six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour,
           confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed]