primipara
/prʌɪˈmɪp(ə)rə
/noun (plural primiparae /prʌɪˈmɪp(ə)riː/) Medicine
A woman who is giving birth for the first time.We restricted the analysis to primiparae (73.5% of whom reported no previous pregnancies) because death of a previous baby may influence both the decision to conceive again and its outcome....
- Puerperal insanity proper comes on within one month of parturition; and, like the insanity of pregnancy, occurs most often in primiparae.
- There were no differences in age, gestational age, ratio of primiparae to pluriparae, body weight, or height between the treatment and control groups.
Derivatives
primiparous
- Catch-up growth between zero and two years was also related to low maternal birth weight and primiparous pregnancy, and there was a trend towards more mothers who admitted to smoking in pregnancy.
- Ms Reynolds, a 25 year old woman, primiparous with one miscarriage, presented to her general practitioner when eight weeks pregnant complaining of nausea and vomiting.
- Caesarean sections were more common among wealthy and educated women, those with more antenatal attendance, primiparous women and, paradoxically, those with a lower gestational risk.
Origin
Mid 19th century: modern Latin (feminine), from primus 'first' + -parus 'bringing forth' (from the verb parere).