Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inducing or facilitating childbirth.
- noun A drug facilitating childbirth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicine, as ergot, which excites uterine action, or facilitates parturition; an oxytocic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
medicine tending to causeparturition , or to give relief inchildbirth .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin parturīre, to be in labor; see parturient + –facient.]
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Latin parturire to desire to bring forth + facere to make.
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