PARTUS
\pˈɑːtəs], \pˈɑːtəs], \p_ˈɑː_t_ə_s]\
Definitions of PARTUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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Lat Child; offspring; the child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth. Partus ex legitimo thoro non certius noscit matrem quam genitorem suum. Fortes. 42. The offspring of a legitimate bed knows not his mother more certainly than his father. Partus sequitur ventrem. The offspring follows the mother; the brood of an animal belongs to the owner of the dam; the offspring of a slave belongs to the owner of the mother, or follow the condition of the mother. A maxim of the civil law, which has been adopted in the law of England in regard to animals, though never allowed in the case of human beings. 2 Bl. Comm. 390, 94; Fortes. 42.
By Henry Campbell Black
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Parturition- p. Abactio, Abortion- p. Abactus, Abortion-p. Caesareus, Cesarean section- p. Difficilis, Dystocia- p. Laboriosus, Dystocia, Laborious labour- p. Praecox, Parturition (premature) - p. Praematurus, Parturition (premature);-p. Serotinus, Opsiotocia.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Latin] Labor. P. agrippinus, labor with breech delivery. P. caesareus, delivery by Caesarean operation. P. siccus, dry labor.
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[Latin] Born.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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