Childbirth
1childbirth — Childbirth and its management have been subject to radically different arguments since the 1960s, with one argument coming from the medical community and a second coming from women. The principal source of controversy has been the issue of… …
2Childbirth — Child birth, n. The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] …
3childbirth — index birth (emergence of young) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4childbirth — mid 15c., from CHILD (Cf. child) + BIRTH (Cf. birth) …
5childbirth — [n] giving birth accouchement, bearing children, blessed event*, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lyingin, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork*;… …
6childbirth — ► NOUN ▪ the action of giving birth to a child …
7childbirth — [chīld′bʉrth΄] n. the act of giving birth to a child …
8Childbirth — Parturition redirects here. For the Voyager episode, see Parturition (Star Trek: Voyager). Childbirth (also called labor, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more… …
9childbirth — n. 1) natural; prepared childbirth 2) in childbirth (she died in childbirth) * * * [ tʃaɪldbɜːθ] prepared childbirth natural in childbirth (she died in childbirth) …
10childbirth — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ natural VERB + CHILDBIRTH ▪ die in ▪ His wife died in childbirth in 1928. CHILDBIRTH + NOUN ▪ educator (AmE …
