parturiency

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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

	Synonyms:	childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail

	See Also:	asynclitism, birth, birthing, effacement, gestation, giving birth, obliquity, parturition, pregnancy, premature labor, premature labour, uterine contraction

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Partu"rien*cy\, n. Parturition.