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[pawr-TOOR-ee-ahnt, pawr-TYOOR-ee-ahnt] 
1. about to give birth; in labor: "Our parturient cat has taken up a secluded corner of the walk-in closet."
2. relating to the process of giving birth
3. on the verge of producing something, as an idea or discovery
noun form: parturiency
Origin:
Approximately 1592; from Latin, 'parturientem,' past participle of 'parturire': to be in labor, from 'parere': to give birth. In action:
"NO: The anesthesiologist doesn't need to be physically present in the delivery room at the moment of delivery if we are considering the healthy parturient without concomitant medical conditions, normal fetal status, and appropriately functioning and stable regional analgesia.
Anesthesiologists are present for the preanesthetic evaluation. We are present for the insertion of the epidural catheter. We are immediately available throughout labor. We evaluate patients at regular intervals throughout labor. We ensure satisfactory analgesia throughout labor. We communicate on a regular basis throughout labor to ensure that the woman is as comfortable as she wants to be."
Dr. William R. Camann. "Pro and Con: Should an anesthesia provider be present for vaginal delivery in all patients receiving neuraxial analgesia?" OB/GYN News (August 1, 2001).
"Most tattoos are applied for the sake of fashion. Almost 50 percent of all tattoos are being done on women. In recent years body tattooing in unconventional (more subtle) sites (e.g. lumbar area, lower abdomen, breast, buttocks) has gained increasing popularity among young women including in pregnancy worldwide. Indeed, in his practice of obstetric anesthesia the author of this correspondence encountered a parturient with multicolor tattoos covering her mid-lumbar area in whom an uneventful administration of epidural labor analgesia (one attempt...) was complicated by postpartum tenderness and burning in the lumbar area where the epidural catheter had been sited. A pigment-containing tissue core from a tattoo seemed a possible cause of deeper lumbar tissues irritation (possibly the first reported case of an in vivo evidence of tattoo pigment toxicity?)."
Krzysztof M Kuczkowski. "Tattoo Pigments: Popular Fashion Accessories or Health Hazards?" Photochemistry and Photobiology (September/October 2004).
"For the lands, and for these passionate days, and for myself,
Now I awhile return to thee, O soil of Autumn fields,
Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee,
Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
Tuning a verse for thee.
O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee."
Walt Whitman (1819-1892). "219. A Carol of Harvest, for 1867" Leaves of Grass (1900).
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