English noun: parturiency | |||
| 1. | parturiency (state) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | ||
| Samples | She was in labor for six hours. | ||
| Synonyms | childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | premature labor, premature labour | ||
| Part holonym | asynclitism, effacement, obliquity, uterine contraction | ||
| Part meronym | gestation, maternity, pregnancy | ||