parturiency

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noun

concluding state of pregnancy;
from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- she was in labor for six hours
• Syn:
labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
• Derivationally related forms:
labour (for: labour), labor (for: labor), parturient
• Hypernyms:
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
• Hyponyms:
premature labor, premature labour
• Part Holonyms:
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
• Part Meronyms:
uterine contraction, effacement, asynclitism, obliquity