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adj. - Having given birth to one or more viable children.

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  • These coincidences occurred 10 times with a nulliparous female and once with another parous female.
  • Firstly, do parous females only demonstrate false oestrus behaviour in the presence of naïve, nulliparous females?
  • We also examined the effects of age at first full-term pregnancy and duration of breast feeding among parous women.
  • Among parous women, breastfeeding was not associated with risk of overall B-cell NHL or any of the histologic subtypes.
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