(n.) A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
(v. t.) To assist in childbirth.
(v. i.) To perform the office of midwife.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the 5985 infants born alive under sole care of a midwife, 3.8% were admitted to hospital.
(2) Call the Midwife – again the most watched show of the day – averaged 9.2 million viewers and a 31.3% audience share from 8pm.
(3) Thanks to a midwife’s visit and the Herts air ambulance, she survived – with a rare pituitary gland condition identified weeks later.
(4) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(5) The definition of midwife is given as midwives trained in a community setting to assist in delivery within the confines of accepted cultural beliefs.
(6) The midwife in the maternity unit can look at the tracing and ask the patient to come if the tracing is insufficient or suspicious.
(7) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(8) The move echoes its decision earlier this year to move another soap, Coronation Street, to Sundays to go head to head with the last episode of hit BBC1 drama Call The Midwife .
(9) One thing we don't talk about is the midwife, because there won't be one.
(10) We argue that the results of prenatal screening for illegal drug use should not be used for determination of child abuse and that the nurse-midwife should not be required to report the results of these screens for illegal drugs to state child protection agencies.
(11) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2013 1 Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor (Christmas Day) 1.96m 2 EastEnders – (Christmas Day) 1.59m 3 EastEnders – (Boxing Day) 1.38m 4 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 1 – 1.36m 5 EastEnders – (27 December) 1.25m 6 Call the Midwife Christmas Day Special – 1.02m 7 Gangsta Granny (Boxing Day) – 1.01m 8 EastEnders - (New Year's Eve) 960,000 9 EastEnders - (30 December) 937,000 10 EastEnders – (Christmas Eve) 922,000 11 EastEnders – (23 December) 872,000 12 Still Open All Hours – (Boxing Day) 842,000 13 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2 – 820,000 14 EastEnders – (20 December) 793,000 15 Death Comes to Pemberley (Boxing Day) – 771,000 16 Citizen Khan Series 2 Episode 7 – 751,000 17 Michael McIntyre's Showtime (Christmas Day) – 643,000 18 Strictly Come Dancing Final (December 21) – 626,000 19 Nativity!
(12) These could be grouped as follows: time consuming procedures (physical examination of the mother or baby, PKU testing), administration-related (the number of other visits that day, the need to liaise with general practitioners or health visitors, whether the mother was already known to the midwife, the time kept waiting at the house), feeding-related (the existence of feeding problems, whether the mother had breast fed previously) and delivery-related (the existence of complications during the delivery).
(13) The pressure on each midwife from the NHS, the patients and their families is marked and I know that I have a challenging time ahead of me, not just in my three years of training but throughout my whole career.
(14) Midwives have contended that midwifery and obstetric workloads could not be measured and that only a 1:1 ratio of mother to midwife should occur, at least in the labour ward environment.
(15) An analysis of BBC1, compiled using Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) figures, of the hours between 6pm and 10pm from 15 January, when the first episode of Call the Midwife was screened, to 5 February, showed that 90% of the audience was over 35, meaning just 719,000 under-35s were watching.
(16) Results showed that knowledge and use of the pill were significantly higher in the project villages than in control villages, where the pill was supplied by a nonresident rural midwife: 28 percent of married women of reproductive age were using the pill in project villages compared with 15 percent in control villages.
(17) As a result of some serious program defects (lab results unavailable before the abortion procedure), the nurse-midwife was given extensive responsibility.
(18) A descriptive case study to explore women's choice of having a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) manage their hospital births was conducted in the District of Columbia (DC).
(19) The acute shortage is leading to the temporary closure of both some hospital maternity units, forcing mothers-to-be to go elsewhere when they are already in labour, and some midwife-led birth centres.
(20) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
Train
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
(v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
(v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
(v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
(v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.
(v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
(v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
(v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
(v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
(v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
(v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
(v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(v.) The tail of a bird.
(v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
(v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
(v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
(v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
(v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
(v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
(v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.