PARTURITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parturition mean? 

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

1. the process of giving birth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTURITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of giving birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition

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

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

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

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 ("parturition" is a part of...):

reproduction (the process of generating offspring)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in several metabolic functions and is involved in the stimulation of parturition.

(CRH Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This hormone can contract smooth muscle during parturition and lactation.

(Arginine Vasopressin-Neurophysin II Preproprotein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

This gene plays a regulatory role in smooth muscle contraction during processes such as parturition and lactation.

(OXT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

When administered intramuscularly on gravid subjects, this agent induces myometrium contractions, thereby initiating luteolysis and consequently parturition.

(Carboprost, NCI Thesaurus)