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Definition of Parturients
1. parturient [n] - See also: parturient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parturients
Literary usage of Parturients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Eclectic Materia Medica & Therapeutics by John Milton Scudder (1898)
"parturients. A PARTURIENT may be defined to be an agent which acts upon the
uterus, increasing its contractile powers, arousing it to renewed action when ..."
2. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1885)
"On the Value of Quinine and Some of its Congeners as parturients. Dr. ANDREW MULLAN
thus writes in the Brit. Med. Jour., February 28, 1885 : It has been ..."
3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"No differences were found in the various zinc indices between chronic hypertensive
parturients and normal control subjects. However, in parturients with ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"It is also told that parturients are placed in beds in proximity to those of ...
This is not only injurious to the parturients and their newborn infants, ..."
5. The American eclectic materia medica and therapeutics by Lorenzo E. Jones (1874)
"Ergot- being the type of the direct parturients, if not the only one, ...
Direct parturients may be administered with advantage, when there is inefficient ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"One case of triplets occurred this year among 2132 parturients. In 1859, the
number of couplets ... The twin cases were as one among every 100 parturients. ..."
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