Definition: parturiency

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

parturiency
     n : concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
         the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
         [syn: labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail,
          childbed]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Parturiency \Par*tu"ri*en*cy\, n.
   Parturition.