Citations:parturient

Adjective: "in labour; having recently given birth"

 * 2002 — Diane Vecchio, "Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswoman", in Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (eds. Donna Gabaccia & Franca Iacovetta), University of Toronto Press (2002), ISBN 0802036112, page 177:
 * Midwives returned to the home of the parturient woman for seven to ten days following delivery.
 * 2003 — Brian Bates & Allison Newman Turner, "Imagery and Symbolism in the Birth Practices of Traditional Cultures", in The Manner Born: Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective (ed. Lauren Dundes), AltaMira Press (2003), ISBN 0759102643, page 88:
 * Anthropological data suggest that many traditional cultures actively employ environmental effects in relation to childbirth, in which the physical environment is specifically manipulated in order to aid the parturient woman and to ease the birth.
 * 2010 — Andrew F. Fraser, The Behaviour and Welfare of the Horse, CABI (2010), ISBN 9781845936297, page 152:
 * The term dystocia means difficulty or failure of the parturient dam to effect the delivery of the foal.

Adjective: "of, related to, or caused by childbirth"

 * 1839 — Edward August Cory, "Strychnia in Retention of Urine", The London Medical Gazette, 16 March 1839, page 905:
 * The parturient pains, after the lapse of several hours, became marked by a peculiar severity, with no corresponding relaxation on the part of the os uteri, which presented to the "touch" the most obstinate rigidity.
 * 1891 — Henry J. Garrigues, "So-Called Laceration of the Perineum", The Medical News, Volume 58, Number 17, 25 April 1891, page 458:
 * During my services at the Maternity Hospital in the years 1885-86, I examined numerous primiparæ shortly after delivery, and again before they left the hospital, and took detailed notes of the tears of the parturient canal at the two periods.
 * 1981 — Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation, Cambridge University Press (1981), ISBN 0521236363, page 93:
 * Menstrual and parturient blood are seen to be anomalous by the Ainu, who refer to them as old blood (husko kem) instead of new blood (asiri kem), that is, blood in the body.

Adjective: "(of a substance) facilitating labour"

 * 1977 — Robert B. Tisserant, The Art of Aromatherapy: The Healing and Beautifying Properties of the Essential Oils of Flowers and Herbs, Healing Arts Press (1977), ISBN 9780892810017, page 87:
 * Linked to their emmenagoguic effect is the parturient, or oxytocic, action of certain oils, that is to say they help to induce labour by stimulating uterine contraction, and may help give a swift and relatively painless birth.
 * 1988 — Michael Tierra, Planetary Herbology: An Integration of Western Herbs into the Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic Systems, Lotus Press (1992), ISBN 0941524272, pages 229-230:
 * Combined with other parturient herbs such as squaw vine and raspberry, it is used during the last two weeks of pregnancy to facilitate childbirth.
 * 2002 — Darlena L'Orange (with Gary Dolowich), Ancient Roots, Many Branches: Energetics of Healing Across Cultures & Through Time, Lotus Press (2002), ISBN 0910261288, page 174:
 * Traditionally, pregnant women ingested a tea of black cohosh, raspberry leaves and other parturient herbs two weeks before their delivery date to facilitate childbirth.

Noun: "one who is in labour or has recently given birth"

 * 2003 — Lynn M. Thomas, Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya, University of California Press (2003), ISBN 0520224507, page 64:
 * With the mwijukia positioned in front of the parturient during the final stage of labor, another woman would sit or crouch behind her, lending physical support similar to that received by initiates during excision.
 * 2006 — Tarja S. Philip, Menstruation and Childbirth in the Bible: Fertility and Impurity, Peter Lang Publishing (2006), ISBN 082047908X, page 119:
 * The parturient gets rid of her impurity by passing a set period of time, and by bringing sacrifices.
 * 2009 — Lynn H. Cohick, Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life, Baker Academic (2009), ISBN 9780801031724, pages 136-137:
 * Once the delivery of the baby is imminent, the mother is shifted from the bed to the birthing chair, and the midwife is joined by three aides who stand on either side and at the back of the chair. All four women offer calming words of encouragement to the anxious parturient.
 * 2011 — James M. Alexander, "Obstetric Management of the Obese Parturient", in Pregnancy in the Obese Woman: Clinical Management (ed. Deborah Conway), Wiley-Blackwell (2011), ISBN 9781405196482, unnumbered page:
 * Obstetric management of the obese parturient presents many challenges
 * 2011 — Tina Phillips Johnson, Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity, Lexington Books (2011), ISBN 9780739164402, page 49:
 * Nonetheless, in both modern and traditional childbirth, the knowledge is held by the male physicians, and the parturient and her attendants are only secondary.

Noun: "a substance that facilitates labour"

 * 1858 — James Syme, Principles and Practice of Surgery, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. (1858), page 892:
 * As a parturient, the Macrotin is a remedy of considerable merit. It is quite as sure to increase the contractile power of the uterus as the ergot, but is not as violent in its effects.
 * 1873 — "Report of Committee on Obstetrics", Transactions of the Minnesota State Medical Society 1873, Johnson & Smith (1873), page 76:
 * Quoting another we have this testimony: — "Quinine, I have had evidence, acts as a parturient; so, also, does Morphine; especially does it have its influence in uterine contractions, when used as a suppository per rectum."
 * 1885 — John Milton Scudder, The American Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics, self-published (1885), page 620:
 * Borax has had considerable repute as a parturient, especially in Germany; but authors of the present day generally coincide in the opinion that if it does possess any such power it is very weak.
 * 1997 — Matthew Wood, The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicine, North Atlantic Books (1997), ISBN 1556432321, page 219:
 * Black Cohosh was used for menstrual problems and as a parturient in the late stages of labor.