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Definition of Maternities
1. maternity [n] - See also: maternity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maternities
Literary usage of Maternities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Hygiene by Thomas Stewart Blair (1911)
"CHAPTER V maternities* Introductory—Early maternities—Social ... The earlier
maternities were established solely for the purpose of providing a place where ..."
2. Woman (La Femme) by Jules Michelet (1867)
"THE maternities OF FOURTEEN. THE METAMORPHOSIS. I HAVE feared but one thing for
this child: and that is, secresy; I know some who are pensive at four years ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"No positive- conclusions as to the amount of these losses can be drawn from,
observations made in hospitals and maternities, or on infants, brought up in ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"Taking seven well-conducted maternities, he finds that the percentages of patients
whose puerperal periods were normal, ranged from 64 per cent, ..."
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