BIRTHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birthing mean? 

• BIRTHING (noun)
  The noun BIRTHING has 1 sense:

1. the process of giving birth

  Familiarity information: BIRTHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRTHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of giving birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition

Hypernyms ("birthing" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birthing"):

brooding; incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)

calving (giving birth to a calf)

accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)

farrow; farrowing (the production of a litter of pigs)

hatch; hatching (the production of young from an egg)

egg laying; laying (the production of eggs (especially in birds))

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)

Holonyms ("birthing" is a part of...):

reproduction (the process of generating offspring)

 Context examples 

An injury sustained to a neonate during the birthing process.

(Neonatal Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)

They include hospitals, clinics, outpatient care centers, and specialized care centers, such as birthing centers and psychiatric care centers.

(Health Facilities, NIH)

An injury sustained during the birthing process in which the continuity is broken in the clavicle.

(Fracture of the Clavicle due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)

An injury sustained during the birthing process in which the continuity is broken in the skull.

(Fracture of Skull due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)

An injury sustained during the birthing process in which the continuity is broken in any bone that is longer in length than width.

(Fracture of Long Bone due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)