Definitions

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

  • adjective Having given birth one or more times.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having brought forth offspring; specifically, noting a woman during the child-bearing period who has already had one or more labors.

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  • adjective Having given birth.

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  • adjective having given birth to one or more viable children

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From –parous.]

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Ultimately from Latin pariō ("I give birth").

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Examples

  • The development of the follicles, however, remains imperfect, except in the parous female.

    XI. Splanchnology. 3d. 6. The Mammæ 1918

  • Bearing in mind these varieties of congenital development in relation to the respective condition of virginity, or sterile or parous married life, the mode of occurrence and of progress of disease grows on the physician's mind, and there is no more occasion for bewilderment than to the mathematician studying conic sections, when his knowledge has grown from the basis of the science.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • That is, do parous females display false oestrus behaviours to coincide with the first occasions that young, nulliparous females come into oestrus, in order to provide information?

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lucy A. Bates et al. 2010

  • This leaves us with the final possibility that parous females simulate oestrus in order to demonstrate towards which males the oestrus behaviours are most appropriately directed.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lucy A. Bates et al. 2010

  • Of the 10 coincidences between nulliparous and parous females, the parous female was the mother of the nulliparous female in four cases, an older sister in two cases, and the matriarch of the family in four cases.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lucy A. Bates et al. 2010

  • We therefore find no difference in the performance of nulliparous females whether their oestrus event coincided with false oestrus of a parous relative or not.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lucy A. Bates et al. 2010

  • Basically, jaundice is a yellowing of the skin and Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and cholangiocarcinoma in Taiwanese parous women with chronic hepatitis B virus infection New data presented today at the International Liver CongressTM 2010 found a Medicine shows that the test most commonly used to screen pediatric patients for chronic liver disease is often incorrectly interpreted in ...

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  • The coincidence between the two parous females concerned a mother and daughter pairing.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lucy A. Bates et al. 2010

  • Basically, jaundice is a yellowing of the skin and Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and cholangiocarcinoma in Taiwanese parous women with chronic hepatitis B virus infection New data presented today at the International Liver CongressTM 2010 found a Medicine shows that the test most commonly used to screen pediatric patients for chronic liver disease is often incorrectly interpreted in ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Finance needed for Asia chronic illness cost:experts 2010

  • We aim to determine when parous female elephants are most likely to exhibit false oestrus, and compare the pattern of false oestrus events against predictions made by several alternative hypotheses, in an attempt to establish the most likely explanation for the occurrence of false oestrus in African elephants.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lucy A. Bates et al. 2010

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