Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Giving or having given birth for the first time.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bearing a child for the first time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective pregnant for the first time
  • adjective Having given birth to only one child
  • adjective bearing a first offspring; having borne only one previous offspring

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once

Etymologies

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New Latin, ultimately prīmus ("first") + pariō ("I give birth").

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Examples

  • We observed a significant fecundity increase even in primiparous mothers, which was not evident in the previous study.

    Love and Marriage 2009

  • Fecal and urinary incontinence in primiparous women.

    The Official Lamaze® Guide Judith Lothian RN 2010

  • Fine, P., et al 2007 Teaching and practicing of pelvic floor muscle exercises in primiparous women during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

    Health & Fitness News William Harryman 2007

  • In primiparous women the mean duration of the second stage is now often reported at about 45 minutes.

    4. CARE DURING THE SECOND STAGE OF LABOUR 1996

  • Perineal tears occur frequently, especially in primiparous women.

    4. CARE DURING THE SECOND STAGE OF LABOUR 1996

  • The results suggested that for primiparous women with a low-risk pregnancy a home birth was as safe as a hospital birth.

    2. GENERAL ASPECTS OF CARE IN LABOUR 1996

  • In 1930 De Snoo determined the duration of the second stage of labour in 628 primiparous women with the fetus in vertex presentation.

    4. CARE DURING THE SECOND STAGE OF LABOUR 1996

  • In many centres “blanket” policies, such as a requirement for all primiparous women to have an episiotomy, are in place.

    4. CARE DURING THE SECOND STAGE OF LABOUR 1996

  • It hadn't been bad enough to produce symptoms, but the stress of a long and difficult primiparous labor caused it to rupture.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Bousquet 4.11 speaks of a primiparous mother, aged twenty-four, giving birth to 4 living infants, 3 by the breech and 1 by the vertex, apparently all in one bag of membranes.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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