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Definition of Maternity ward
1. Noun. A hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants.
Definition of Maternity ward
1. Noun. A hospital ward that provides assistance during childbirth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maternity Ward
Literary usage of Maternity ward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"2 Cribs and beds in maternity ward as required. Metropolitan. Medical: Girls .....
26 679 16,16 rI!, 21 Surgical: Beds in Adult Wards as Boys . ..."
2. The Baganda at Home: With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda by Charles W. Hattersley (1908)
"... Conditions—Mission Hospitals—The Opportunity of the Gospel—The
Patients—Operating-room—maternity ward—Infant Inmates—Fees—A Distinguished Patient—
Roman ..."
3. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1909)
"Individual instruction is given in the delivery room, in the maternity ward, and
in the nursery. During the last half of the third year the students are ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"Yet it is impossible to put surgical and medical cases into a maternity ward,
for fear of infection. That means more beds wasted, also heat and light and ..."
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