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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Inducing or facilitating childbirth.
  2. n. A drug facilitating childbirth.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A medicine, as ergot, which excites uterine action, or facilitates parturition; an oxytocic.

Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.

Etymologies

  1. Latin parturire to desire to bring forth + facere to make. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin parturīre, to be in labor; see parturient + -facient. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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