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• primipara

  (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time.

• quadripara

  (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancie...

• quintipara

  (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancie...

Also contains

• perinatology

  The branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and...

• primigravida

  (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time.

• nullipara

  (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child.

• presentation

  (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; "Cesarean...

• parity

  (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother...

• induction of labor

  (obstetrics) inducing the childbirth process artificially by administering oxytocin...

• incompetent cervix

  (obstetrics) uterine cervix that becomes dilated before term and without labor...

• fetology

  The branch of medicine concerned with the fetus in the uterus.

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• obstetrician

  A physician specializing in obstetrics.