accouchement
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈkuːʃmənt/
accouchement
- Delivery in childbed; parturition
- Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 156:
- a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement
- 1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (volume 14, page 153)
- A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.
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