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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 cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth.

Etymologies

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

[Latin parturīre, to be in labor; see parturient + –facient.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin parturire to desire to bring forth + facere to make.

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