(n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(2) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(3) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(4) Burns account for 9 per cent of the deaths occurring to women aged 15-49, and were the third cause of death (after disease of the circulatory system and complications of pregnancy and childbirth).
(5) This loss of neural regulation may result from mechanical damage to the pelvic nerves due to childbirth or pelvic surgery, exposure to environmental toxins (e.g., organochlorine insecticides or heavy metals), or possibly exposure to an infectious agent.
(6) She campaigns against deaths in childbirth and goes to Glastonbury with Naomi Campbell.
(7) Strategies for enhancing care involve using childbirth and sibling classes, modifying health care and information from primary care providers, mobilizing supportive services and resources, and influencing policies to meet maternal and family needs.
(8) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(9) Ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic energy therapies are increasingly used for perineal trauma sustained during childbirth.
(10) However, important cultural differentials exist in the medical services sought for childbirth and in the treatment of morbidity in children of different ages and sexes.
(11) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
(12) Contraceptive information is in special demand among women having abortions, women after childbirth, and youth.
(13) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
(14) A 50.8% reduction in childbirth was found in the study group, although 77% of families had decided against further high-risk pregnancies.
(15) Third, women do not attempt to assess the probabilities of particular outcomes, but instead construct mental images of anticipated events based upon past childbirth experience and expected consequences of the preferred course of action.
(16) In the case of a curable cause the childbirth should take place near a well equipped neonatology department, with a neonatal intensive care unit and surgical possibilities.
(17) A number of factors seem likely to be important in the aetiology of the condition in Milne Bay Province, including infection associated with previous childbirth and abortion.
(18) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
(19) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
(20) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
Parturition
Definition:
(n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
(n.) That which is brought forth; a birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In all cases foetal administration of glucocorticoid led to the onset of labour, and lambing, and in all animals the hormonal changes preceding parturition were indistinguishable (either qualitatively or quantitatively) from the changes observed in animals carrying intact lambs.
(2) Current approaches to control fertile estrus and parturition in the pig are discussed.
(3) The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to pineal influences on parturition.
(4) Following parturition, NONLAC cows averaged 4.0 d to negative EB nadir and 14.3 d to first ovulation.
(5) A close similarity was evident between variation in ATP and somatic cell count, except during the first 10 d after parturition when the variation in ATP was more pronounced.
(6) Of the remaining 10 women, 3 had to be operated on, whereas 7 received only conservative treatment, as the expected time for parturition was very close.
(7) Prolonged administration of rat prolactin antiserum resulted in an increase in the incidence of resorptions, but pregnancy was still maintained followed by normal parturition.
(8) Treatment with MPG led to an obvious increase in embryonic survival in all groups, and even in the 185 kBq group two-thirds of the females had parturition.
(9) These findings indicate that a structure in the fetal brain, the fetal hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, is necessary for parturition to occur.
(10) These results show that chronic T4 treatment induces an advance of approximately 12 h in luteolysis, which in turn advances lactogenesis and parturition in rats.
(11) At parturition, body weights of pups did not differ as a function of dietary condition.
(12) These data do not agree with the conclusions drawn from observations in other mammals that a disappearance of adrenergic nerves from the myometrium is associated with the initiation of parturition, or that gap junction formation is associated with changes in nerve function.
(13) The maternal adrenal and plasma corticosterone levels, before parturition, were lower in the morning than in the afternoon excepting day 22 when morning values were as high as those in the afternoon of day 21.
(14) Adverse effects on conception, pregnancy, or parturition were not observed in the treated bitches.
(15) The concentration of progesterone in peripheral blood increased by more than 300%, on an average, from the 25th day after parturition.
(16) Absolute leukocyte values increased through gestation and reached maximum values shortly before parturition.
(17) Dilatation of the cervix at parturition necessitates changes in the physical characteristics of cervical collagen and glycosaminoglycans which are probably hormone-dependent.
(18) Conversely, in 5 pregnant and 1 non-pregnant tammar injected with ovine prolactin on Day 23, to mimic the condition induced by advancing the time of parturition with progesterone, the decline in plasma progesterone was not advanced and the endogenous prolactin pulse, parturition, post-partum ovulation and the LH pulse all occurred after intervals similar to those of controls.
(19) Because we previously demonstrated that oxytocin releases ET-1 from endometrial cells in primary culture and that endometrial and myometrial oxytocin receptors abruptly rise at the time of parturition, we propose that ET-1 might participate in the complex cell-to-cell interactions that occur during labor.
(20) Concentrate consumption should be increased gradually following parturition, and careful attention to the soluble and undegradable protein fractions of the diet is warranted.