Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who has given birth to only one child.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who bears a child for the first time: correlated with nullipara, multipara.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A woman who bears a child for the first time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman during or after her firstpregnancy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And those who know the value of peace learn how to make peace–even between a screaming mad premenstrual teen and a lank-haired, irritable, self-righteous and justifiably exasperated prima donna of a primipara.
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Examples include: hostile cervical mucus; habitual abortion; incompetent cervix; elderly primipara; dominant follicle; blighted ovum; vaginal probe; ovarian failure; harvesting eggs.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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For instance, in dealing with a primipara -- one who is full of fear, who cannot stand pain, who is of an hysterical nature -- morphin-scopolamin anesthesia is best suited in that particular case, because these drugs have a selective action when it comes to allay fear and produce amnesia.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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In the first the patient was a primipara 20 years of age, and, until the dilatation of the cervix was complete and efforts at expulsion had commenced, the uterine contractions were quite painless.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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"I have rarely seen a primipara enjoy easier labor," concluded Robertson, "and I have never seen one look forward to the happy realization of motherhood with greater satisfaction."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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On April 30th the fundus of the tumor was 35 cm. above the symphysis and the uterus 11 1/2 cm.; the cervix was soft as that of a primipara at term.
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Croston 3.83 reports a case of Cesarean section on a primipara of twenty-four at full term, with the delivery of a double female monster weighing 12 1/2 pounds.
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Mackenzie 2.114 cites the instance of a woman aged thirty-two, a primipara, who had been married ten years and who always had been regular in menstruation.
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Wilcox 6.382 mentions a primipara, three months pregnant, with a double vagina and a bicornate uterus, who was safely delivered of several children.
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Madden 2.141 gives the history of a primipara of twenty-eight, married one year, to whom he was called.
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