单词 | prepartum |
释义 | prepartumadj.adv. Medicine. rare before 20th cent. A. adj. Occurring or existing during pregnancy prior to the onset of labour; relating to this period; = antepartum adj. and adv. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth > before or after birth > before antenatalitial1708 antenatal1796 prenatal1826 antepartum1853 prepartum1858 pre-delivery1946 1858 R. Barnes Physiol. & Treatm. Placenta Prævia ii. 71 I believe these considerations present a rational explanation of a multitude of cases of præ-partum hæmorrhage, [etc.]. 1939 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 9 May 3/2 61 per cent of the maternal deaths..occurred in women who had no prepartum care. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 59 1116 In cases of prepartum bleeding, cesarean section to facilitate abdominal exploration was practically always necessary. 1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 186 ‘My goodness, you're touchy these days.’ ‘Pre-partum blues,’ he suggested. 1991 G. W. Brown in J. Becker & A. Kleinman Psychosocial Aspects of Depression i. 26 It was not possible to distinguish in clinical terms this temporarily restricted postpartum group from other major depressive conditions occurring to prepartum and postpartum women. 2003 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 47 241 Visitors could only see women who had not yet delivered, that is, who were in the pre-partum ward. B. adv. Before the onset of labour. ΚΠ 1952 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 8 575 The change..seemed to occur at about 2 weeks pre-partum. 1977 Endocrinology 100 1192 Cultures of mammary tissue obtained from cows at 30-40 days prepartum. 1987 G. M. Urquhart et al. Vet. Parasitol. (1988) (BNC) 69 Daily administration of high doses of fenbendazole to the bitch from three weeks pre-partum to three weeks post-partum has largely eliminated transmammary and prenatal infection of the pups. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1858 |
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