parturient pangs.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A parturient heifer.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It is called dropping after calving, from its following the parturient state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

Its fruit and leaves are used for flavouring pickles, and its water is given to parturient women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

In former years, puerperal fever took the lives of from five to fifty of each one hundred parturient mothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

The mountain splits to give birth to the sun-god, just as in the later fable the parturient mountain produced the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

The midwife, situated in front of the parturient, would massage the uterus, while the tenedora supported her from the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

They gave this parturient goddess the nondescript title of "resin garden mummy 5 piece set," but her moon belly reveals the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halloween Fertility Decor | Thingamababy] Reference

If the Lucina of the ancients be identified with Diana, it was not unreasonable to court the care of the parturient, by selecting the time deemed most propitious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

The midwife bids the patient lie upon her back and, aided by a few relatives of the parturient, proceeds to administer one of the most ferocious massages imaginable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

What disturbances might not such an organism carry into the body of a parturient woman, after passing into the peritoneum, the lymphatics or the blood through the maternal placenta!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Regarding it as a proposition from Congress to meet the unparalleled exigencies of the present hour, it is no better than the 'muscipular abortion' sent into the world by the 'parturient mountain.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

In 1912, similar goals were adopted by another group, the Israelite Female Beneficence Society (Sociedad Israelita Femenina de Beneficencia), which lent small amounts of money to the poor and helped parturient women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentina: Philanthropic Organizations.] Reference

O lavish brown parturient earth -- O infinite teeming womb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference

Accumsan ut ratione, sed massa integer a enim, felis parturient.    From Wordnik.com.  [WebDeveloper.com]

Susruta advises the parturient to drink quantities of sour rice gruel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

"No human being, save a pregnant or parturient woman, is susceptible to the poison.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference

The Wakamba of Africa put their parturient to work four to six days after confinement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

"The parturient trips to the Unites States and Canada are fully booked several months ahead.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Pregnancy and the parturient state are factors in some instances (so-called herpes gestationis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

Framework formerly in use in Japan for the support of the parturient in a kneeling posture ... ... .88 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

With regard to the assistants who aid the parturient woman, there is some difference in the customs of the various races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

Applied to the breasts of parturient women it dries up the milk and in the same way tends to reduce any glandular enlargement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

All other means having failed, they suspend the parturient by means of a band beneath the arms, as we have already mentioned. 134.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

On the Canary Islands, the parturient woman sits upon the floor, with a chair or other support beside her, upon which her arms rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

The parturient woman, at the time of the expulsive pains, raises herself in bed into a semi-recumbent position upon her hands or elbows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

The Comanches construct a shelter for parturient women a short distance outside of the camp and in the rear of the patient's family lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

I cannot, however, agree with his conclusion, namely, ` ` that among the majority of people the parturient women assume the recumbent position. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

In Australia other positions are assumed in simple labor, but it seems that in difficult cases the parturient woman is treated in the same barbarous way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

The parturient is confined in an isolated shelter, which is destroyed when labor is over, or in a hut or house kept for the purpose, in a particular room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

Those of you who are scholastic-minded, or simply common-sense minded, will smile at the elaborate groans of my parturient mountain resulting in nothing but this mouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

We now come to the semi-recumbent position assumed by the parturient woman whose labor takes places in the obstetric chair, under the supervision of a midwife or physician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference