Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Inducing or facilitating childbirth.
- n. A drug facilitating childbirth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A medicine, as ergot, which excites uterine action, or facilitates parturition; an oxytocic.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.
Etymologies
- Latin parturire to desire to bring forth + facere to make. (Wiktionary)
- Latin parturīre, to be in labor; see parturient + -facient. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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