| 单词 | maternity |
| 释义 | maternity (once / 3671 pages) n Use the noun maternity to describe the relationship of a mother to her children. The state of maternity includes everything involved in becoming a mother, from being pregnant to giving birth to chasing a little kid around a playground. Adoptive mothers experience maternity too, since they are someone's mom. The word maternity comes from the Latin root mater, which means "mother," and it's related to the adjective maternal. You can mostly use the words maternity and motherhood interchangeably. WORD FAMILYmaternity: maternities+/maternal: maternalism, maternally, maternity/maternalism: maternalistic USAGE EXAMPLESCouric is filling in for Savannah Guthrie, who’s on maternity leave. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “You were supposed to do maternity scenes or watercolours, but not something as tough and decisive as what you do,” Bechara says. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Ventilation machines and other vital equipment are broken down, including some of the incubators in the maternity ward. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother Syn|Hyper motherhood family relationship, kinship, relationship (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption 2n the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother Syn|Hyper maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness parental quality a quality appropriate to a parent 3n the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus Syn|Hypo|Hyper gestation, pregnancy trouble an unwanted pregnancy gravidation, gravidity, gravidnesstechnical terms for pregnancy gravidathe number of the pregnancy that a woman is in para, parity(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered eccyesis, ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesispregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus entopic pregnancypregnancy resulting from normal gestation in the uterus placenta previapregnancy in which the placenta is implanted in the lower part of the uterus (instead of the upper part); can cause bleeding late in pregnancy; delivery by cesarean section may be necessary abdominal pregnancyectopic pregnancy in the abdominal cavity ovarian pregnancyectopic pregnancy in the ovary tubal pregnancyectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state the condition or state of the body or bodily functions |
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