raincoat

After standing around in talk for a while, during which time Doris arrived with my hat and raincoat (left with her at the site) we made our way some two hundred strong, up the gracious stone stairway to the Hall of Christ Church, loaned by that College for the celebrationary lunch.

1987, Sir Raymond Streat, Marguerite Dupree, Lancashire and Whitehall: The Diary of Sir Raymond Streat:

Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”

2024 November 9, Maya Yang, “Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle”, in The Guardian:

A waterproof coat to be worn in the rain.


repercussion

en-noun

repercussion (countable and uncountable, plural repercussions)

/ˌɹiː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/

/ˌɹɛ.pɚˈkʌʃ.ən/

From Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).

uder

(obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.


catcher's mitt

en-noun

catcher's mitt (plural catcher's mitts or catchers' mitts)

catcher's mitts (plural)
catchers' mitts (plural)


denidation

Finally, he [Aveling] believes that menstruation is probably determined by the act of “denidation,” as he calls it, because it is from the denided surface that the menstrual flow comes.

1894, Walter Heape, “The Menstruation of Semnopithecus entellus”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 185:

The breakup and expulsion of the endometrium during menstruation.


pantyliner

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A pad worn on the inner surface of women's underpants, up against the vulva, during a low-flow day of the menstrual period, designed to absorb small, spotty quantities of menstrual fluid, in contrast to a tampon or sanitary napkin, worn on heavy-flow days.


intrauterine device

intrauterine device (plural intrauterine devices)

intrauterine devices (plural)
as IUD (abbreviation)

A contraceptive device consisting of a spiral or similar shape of plastic or metal inserted through the vagina into the uterus in order to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg.


products of conception

(medicine) The human fetus, placenta and other such by-products of a miscarriage or abortion.


eclampsia

eclampsia (usually uncountable, plural eclampsias)

Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).

af

(pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.


suction curettage

en-noun

suction curettage (usually uncountable, plural suction curettages)

products of conception
products of conception

A common method of abortion where the products of conception are removed by a vacuum arrangement.


come on

en-verb

come on (third-person singular simple present comes on, present participle coming on, simple past came on, past participle come on)

comes on (present singular third-person)
coming on (participle present)
came on (past)
come on (participle past)

The light came on as soon as I flicked the switch.

She pressed the power button and waited for the screen to come on.

(intransitive, of an electric or electronic device, especially a light) To activate; to turn on.


crowning

From Middle English crouninge, crounynge, coroning, coronyng, equivalent to crown + -ing.

When your baby’s head remains visible without slipping back in, it is known as crowning.

2012 April, Baby Crowning, American Pregnancy Association:

(obstetrics) The stage of vaginal childbirth when the infant's head remains consistently visible at the vulva.


family planning

Birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples.

計劃生育 /计划生育

birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples


menstrual cycle

en-noun

menstrual cycle (plural menstrual cycles)

The recurring cycle of physiological changes in the uninseminated females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility; especially the cycle in a human.


PMT

PMT (countable and uncountable, plural PMTs)

Other circumstances, such as sunburn, travel, or emotional crisis, can also aggravate fluid retention and "PMT".

1978, Barbara Seaman, Gideon Seaman, Women and the crisis in sex hormones:

Fraser knew girls had periods but he'd never heard of PMT.

In the 20th century Frank coined the term premenstrual tension (PMT).

2006, Peter Clark, Ian A Greer, Practical Obstetric Hematology:

"It's PMT - she'll be back." "I expect that's your father - let's eat."

2006, Rachel Loosmore, Saucy Shorts for Chefs:

premenstrual tension
premenstrual tension#English

(uncountable, medicine, now chiefly UK) Initialism of premenstrual tension.


premenstrual tension

Coined by Robert T. Frank in 1931 of New York, the first doctor to treat PMS's physical and psychological components as related to a single cause.

There may be an actual distaste for sexual relations for a week or so prior to the period, perhaps as part of a picture of general irritability and vague feelings of discomfort of which some women complain; the name "premenstrual tension" has been applied to this.

1950, Louis Portnoy, Jules Saltman, Fertility in Marriage: A Guide for the Childless:

However, the pervasive social impact of the premenstrual tension comes from psychological, behavioral change, and this is the time of month that women are likely to be admitted to psychiatric wards.

1950, Public Health Service publication no. 263, sect. 20, 1969:

In 1931, Frank coined the term premenstrual tension, in reference to the cyclical recurrence of tension, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in 15 women during their premenstrual phase.

2006, Corey L.M. Keyes, Sherryl H. Goodman, Women and Depression: A Handbook for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences:

premenstrual syndrome
premenstrual syndrome#English

(now chiefly UK) Synonym of premenstrual syndrome: the physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation.


premenstrual syndrome

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Coined by Katharina Dalton in 1953 to replace the earlier premenstrual tension, which she considered accidentally created the impression of focusing solely on PMS's mental aspects.

The thiazides and similar compounds have also been used in patients with edema associated with nephritis and …the premenstrual syndrome….

1968, Diet Pill Industry: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 26 . Part 56, p. 702:

In The Premenstrual Syndrome, Dr. Katherina Dalton summarizes many studies of behavior change that show a large portion of crimes (63 percent in an English study, 84 percent in a French) are not distributed evenly over time, but clustered in the premenstrual interval along with suicides, accidents, a decline in the quality of schoolwork, decline in intelligence test scores, visual acuity, and response speed.

1969: Public Health Service publication no. 263, sect. 20, 1969

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) takes a lot of bashing in the media. It is true that many women become more aggressive during this period, though they are rarely out of control...Therefore, any PMS symptoms that are perceived as unstable are due to the fact that women act more like men during this phase than at any other time in their cycles.

1998, Edain McCoy, Celtic Women's Spirituality:

The term "premenstrual syndrome" first emerged in 1953 when Dr. Katharina Dalton used it to describe the same symptoms delineated by Dr. Frank [who coined premenstrual tension in 1931].

2006, Kristen Brown, Nietzsche And Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism:

The physical symptoms of this premenstrual syndrome include bloating, weight gain, breast tenderness, abdominal discomfort, lethargy and headache whilst the psychological symptoms include anxiety, irritability, aggression and loss of control.

2006, Geoffrey P Webb, Dietary Supplements And Functional Foods:

premenstrual tension
premenstrual tension

The physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation; premenstrual tension.

dysmenorrhea

which in its sense as a symptom can be meronymic to premenstrual syndrome


catamenial

Of or relating to the menses or menstruation


menses

From Latin mēnsis (“month”), the plural being mēnsēs (“months”), corresponding to the monthly courses of women. Compare month.

The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow.


have a bun in the oven

en-verb

have a bun in the oven (third-person singular simple present has a bun in the oven, present participle having a bun in the oven, simple past and past participle had a bun in the oven)

has a bun in the oven (present singular third-person)
having a bun in the oven (participle present)
had a bun in the oven (participle past)
had a bun in the oven (past)

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Her parents were surprised to learn that she had a bun in the oven.

You really think it's cool for you to hit the sauce with a bun in the oven?

2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):

(informal, sometimes considered vulgar) To be pregnant; to be expecting a baby.

有了

(informal) to be pregnant; to be expecting a baby

olla pulla uunissa (subject in adessive)


antiabortion

en-adj

antiabortion (comparative more antiabortion, superlative most antiabortion)

more antiabortion (comparative)
most antiabortion (superlative)

Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.

1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:

The news reporters tell us that conservatives are antiabortion, anti–gun control, antidiversity, antienvironment, antieverything.

2001, Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, page 182:

Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.


antiabortionist

From antiabortion + -ist or anti- + abortionist.

One who is opposed to the practice of abortion, or to it being legal.

antiavortista

one who is opposed to the practice and/or legality of abortion


postpartum

1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”), form of partus, from pariō (“I give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

der

(of a mother, a symptom, a diagnosis or treatment, etc) After giving birth (often defined as within 30 days after childbirth).

a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc; a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc


TOM

(cytology) Acronym of Translocon on Outer Membrane.


on the pill

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

(idiomatic, of a woman) Using oral contraceptives.


Vatican roulette

From the Catholic church's prohibitions on active methods of contraception, and its perceived lack of reliability. By analogy with Russian roulette.


nulliparous

(of a woman or female animal) That has never given birth.


gestate

en-verb

gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)

gestates (present singular third-person)
gestating (participle present)
gestated (participle past)
gestated (past)

In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.

2012, H. DeWayne Ashmead, Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition, CRC Press, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.


Roussel+UCLAF+486, from Usines Chimiques des Laboratoires Français. From French RU-486. From the codename RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf; then shortened to RU-486.


mifepristone

Dutch: mifepriston

French: mifépristone

German: Mifepriston

Italian: mifepristone

Vietnamese: mifepristone

From (a)mi(no)phe(nyl) + pr(opargyl) + ist- (“alteration of (o)est(radiol)”) + -one.

af

Now a year later, as the courts consider the fate of mifepristone and abortion providers gird for the possibility of a miso-only protocol, Cristina says that she’s grateful she was able to end her unwanted pregnancy, although she knows not everyone has access to the same resources […]

2023 July 31, Sara Hutchinson, “Having an Abortion at Home? There’s a Hotline for That”, in Cosmopolitan:

(pharmacology) A steroid medication that inhibits the action of progesterone, typically given orally in combination with misoprostol in early pregnancy to induce abortion.

mifepriston

steroid medication used to induce abortion

-pris-

steroid compound acting on progesterone receptors


luteal phase

The latter part of the menstrual cycle, that occurs after ovulation, in which the corpus luteum secretes progesterone to prepare the endometrium for the implantation of an embryo.


vulvectomy

(surgery) The surgical removal of some or all of the vulva.


vaginectomy

en-noun

vaginectomy (countable and uncountable, plural vaginectomies)

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(surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the vagina.


tuboplasty

(surgery) Surgery to repair one or both of the Fallopian tubes.


eat for two

en-verb

eat for two (third-person singular simple present eats for two, present participle eating for two, simple past ate for two, past participle eaten for two)

eats for two (present singular third-person)
eating for two (participle present)
ate for two (past)
eaten for two (participle past)

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childbearing

en-noun

childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)

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From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge. By surface analysis, child + bearing.

From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.

1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ..., volumes 26–30, page 243:

The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.


puerperium

Borrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).

af

As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of Nervous Diseases: For Students and Practicing Physicians; In Thirty Lectures, page 84:

(obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.


morning sickness

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(medicine) Early morning nausea and vomiting as a symptom of pregnancy.


premenstrual

en-adj

premenstrual (comparative more premenstrual, superlative most premenstrual)

more premenstrual (comparative)
most premenstrual (superlative)

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Occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle leading up to the beginning of menstruation.

premenstruační

occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle

Relating to the time period in a girl's life prior to her first experience of menstruation; prepubescent.


amenorrhoeic

/eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/


amenorrhoea

en-noun

amenorrhoea (usually uncountable, plural amenorrhoeae or amenorrhoeas)

amenorrhoeae (plural)
amenorrhoeas (plural)

/əˌmɛnəˈɹiːə/

/ˌeɪmɛnəˈɹiːə/

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ privative prefix + μήν ‘month’ + -ροια ‘flowing’ (from ῥέειν ‘to flow’).

(medicine) Absence of menstrual discharge.


artificial insemination

(biology, medicine) The introduction of semen into the uterus or cervix of a female by a means other than copulation.

иску́сственное оплодотворе́ние n (iskússtvennoje oplodotvorénije, literally “artificial fertilization”)


in vitro fertilization

in vitro fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural in vitro fertilizations)

(medicine) The fertilization of an ovum by sperm outside of a woman's body; normally used as a treatment for infertility.

體外人工受精 /体外人工受精

(medicine) the fertilization of an egg by sperm outside of a woman's body


menorrhagia

menorrhagia (countable and uncountable, plural menorrhagias)

/ˌmɛnɔːˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪə/

metrorrhagia

abnormal uterine bleeding at irregular intervals

colporrhagia

bleeding per vaginam with vaginal source

Excessive menstrual flow but regularly timed.


hysterosalpingography

hysterosalpingography (countable and uncountable, plural hysterosalpingographies)

(medicine) X-ray examination of the uterus and oviducts following injection of a radiopaque substance.


hysteroscopy

(medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.


Frenchie

“Kiss me,” she said.
He heard a giggle from Molly.
“Give her a Frenchie,” Solly said.

2014, J. David Simons, The Credit Draper:


enfantement

"Which? She's expecting a second enfantement, you know, immediately...Oh, she's such a quick puss."

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112


lochia

Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).

In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]

1822, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal:

Variations in the quantity, quality, or odour of the lochia not unnaturally excite great alarm in the mind of the patient, who regards any deviation in this secretion as a proof of serious disease. Yet very remarkable differences do occur, without any morbid affection of the uterus or vagina.

1866, Fleetwood Churchill, On the theory and practice of midwifery:

In three or four days the distinctly bloody character of the lochia is altered. They have a reddish watery appearance, and are known as the lochia rubra or cruenta [...]

1884, William Smoult Playfair, A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery, volume II (fifth edition), part III, chapter IX:

1921, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American Gynecological Society
On the fifth day the coryza, cough and rash were all improved, but the patient was irrational; the lochia were thin, watery and odorless; …

1924: The Canadian nurse, published by the Canadian Nurses' Association
Check lochia and change sterile pad. If the patient's pulse is under 90, the fundus is firm and the lochia is normal, the patient may be left at the end ...

1927, The Indian Veterinary Journal, published by the Indian Veterinary Association
In one Magra ewe which gave birth to twins, lochia continued for 8 days …

1946: Nicholson Joseph Eastman and Emil Novak, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey
By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy.

For the first three or four days after delivery the lochia are red; [...] three different types of lochia are distinguished: ‘lochia rubra’ or ‘red lochia’, ‘lochia serosa’ ‘serous lochia’, which appears five to six days after delivery, and ‘lochia alba’ meaning ‘white lochia’, the final lochial discharge [...]

1998, Giovanni Maciocia, Obstetrics & Gynecology in Chinese Medicine, page 609:

Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.


due date

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The date on which a pregnant woman is expected to give birth.


direct maternal death

direct maternal death (plural direct maternal deaths)

A maternal death resulting from a complication of the pregnancy or delivery, or their management.


indirect maternal death

indirect maternal death (plural indirect maternal deaths)

A pregnancy-related death in a female patient with a preexisting or newly developed health problem.


abortuary

(slang, anti-abortion, derogatory) A place where abortions are performed.


pro-lifer

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A person with pro-life views, or who advocates such policies


pro-choicer

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A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.


primipara

primipara (plural primiparas or primiparae)

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/

/pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.

der

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.

първескиня

woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy — see also primigravida

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

primipara

woman or female animal that has carried a pregnancy to a viable gestational age


postpartum depression

en-noun

postpartum depression (countable and uncountable, plural postpartum depressions)

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Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:

(psychiatry) Depression experienced by a parent, usually the mother, after childbirth.


feticide

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

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From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).

Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.

2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.

1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209

(dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.


break water

en-verb

break water (third-person singular simple present breaks water, present participle breaking water, simple past broke water, past participle broken water)

breaks water (present singular third-person)
breaking water (participle present)
broke water (past)
broken water (participle past)

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To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.


puerpera

en-noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).

bor

I saw a very serious hemorrhage result from relaxation of the uterus on the eleventh day when the puerpera had been frightened by a domestic quarrel.

1918, Joseph Bolivar De Lee, Principles and practice of obstetrics, page 813:

Since one of the principal reasons for keeping the puerpera in a recumbent posture is avoidance of strain upon relaxed and weakened supporting structures by a large heavy uterus, the length of the stay in bed is not made a matter of routine

1934, Karl Mathias Beierlein, Pamphlets and Reprints, page 350:

A statistically significant circadian rhythm for urine volume was revealed in 6 of 10 pregnant women in the first trimester and in 6 of 9 puerperas on the 7th puerperal day.

1984, Erhard Haus, Hugh F. Kabat, editors, Chronobiology 1982-1983:

Abdominal ultrasound of the puerpera usually does not require a full bladder, because the enlarged uterus directly abuts the anterior abdominal wall and can be scanned without difficulty.

2011, Eberhard Merz, “Ultrasound in the Puerperium”, in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, volume 1, page 39:

(obstetrics) A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.


right-to-lifer

One who espouses a position of support for fetuses' right to life; a pro-lifer; one who opposed abortion.


menstruous

From Anglo-Norman menstruus, Middle French menstrueus, and their source, Late Latin menstruosus (“menstruating”), from Latin mēnstruum.

There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Esdras 5:8:

Foolish, drunken, or hairbrain women most part bring forth children like unto themslves, morosus et languidos, and so likewise he that lies with a menstruous woman.

(of a female) Currently undergoing menstruation.


venter

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

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(biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:

(botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.


abortogenic

en-adj

abortogenic (comparative more abortogenic, superlative most abortogenic)

more abortogenic (comparative)
most abortogenic (superlative)

/əˈbɔɹ.təˌd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/


abortee

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aborter

[…] these findings are consistent with other studies which have shown that most aborters tend to be highly informed about contraceptives but failed to use them at the time they became pregnant.

1992, D. C. Reardon, chapter 1, in Life Stories, Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, page 8:

One who or that which aborts.
(derogatory) One who has an abortion.

One who or that which aborts.
One who has an abortion.

But when is one an accomplice? Is a thief the accomplice of his receiver, a briber the accomplice of the official he corrupts […] an abortee the accomplice of the aborter […]?

1963, Richard H. Kuh, “A Prosecutor Considers the Model Penal Code”, in Columbia Law Review, 63.4, p. 616:


paternity leave

en-noun

paternity leave (usually uncountable, plural paternity leaves)

From paternity + leave, modelled after maternity leave.

My husband is on a three-month paternity leave while he looks after our newborn baby and I’m working abroad.

A leave of absence from a job for a father to care of a baby.


progestin

progestin (countable and uncountable, plural progestins)

(chemistry) A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.


abstinence only

Programs have been developed that either advocate abstinence only […] or abstinence-plus […].

2002, Marysol Asencio, Sex and Sexuality Among New York's Puerto Rican Youth, page 149:

Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas specify the teaching of abstinence only until marriage.

2002, Larry D. Burlew, Dave Capuzzi, Sexuality Counseling, page 75:

Not only was the federal government encouraging abstinence only; […].

2003, Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, page 101:

[…] directly to organizations that teach abstinence only without going through the states.

2006, David Cooper, Broken America, page 182:

sexually transmitted diseases
sexually transmitted diseases

A form of sex education that advocates only abstinence as a means to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.


unprotected sex

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Sexual intercourse without protection from pregnancy; non-use of birth control.


baby bump

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(informal) Visible signs of pregnancy, noticeable abdominal swelling in a pregnant woman.


vaginal birth

vaginal birth (countable and uncountable, plural vaginal births)

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Birth via the vagina (as opposed to caesarean section).


gravidity

gravidity (countable and uncountable, plural gravidities)


father-to-be

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A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.


calendar method

A rhythm method of natural birth control.


rhythm method

A method of natural birth control that involves counting days of a woman's menstrual cycle in order to determine when sexual intercourse is most or least likely to result in pregnancy.


childbed

childbed (countable and uncountable, plural childbeds)

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From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child + bed.

(uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.


chorionic villus sampling

chorionic villus sampling (countable and uncountable, plural chorionic villus samplings)

(obstetrics, pathology) A form or prenatal diagnosis in which part of the placental tissue is tested for genetic abnormalities.


OB-GYN

OB-GYN (countable and uncountable, plural OB-GYNs)

(countable, initialism, acronym) (prefixed with the) A clinic or doctor's office with these specialties.


rubber baby buggy bumper

rubber baby buggy bumper (plural rubber baby buggy bumpers)


hypomenorrhea

hypomenorrhea (usually uncountable, plural hypomenorrheas)

The condition of menstrual blood flow that is extremely light.


anembryonic pregnancy

anembryonic pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural anembryonic pregnancies)

(medicine) A form of early miscarried pregnancy in which the embryo fails to develop, though the gestational sac appears to grow normally.

gestação anembrionária

pregnancy in which the embryo fails to develop, though the gestational sac grows normally


Aunt Flo

Pun on flow and Flo (nickname for Florence, Flora, etc).

Aunt Flo came to visit last night: that's why I was so ratty.

(euphemistic slang) A personification of the menstrual period or menstruation.

大姨媽 /大姨妈

slang, personification of the menstrual period


disengagement

disengagement (countable and uncountable, plural disengagements)

(medicine, obstetrics) The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.


MFM

MFM (countable and uncountable, plural MFMs)

Initialism of maternal and fetal medicine. The specialty of medicine, a subspecialty of obstetrics, that deals with high-risk pregnancies.


right to choose

Strict abortion laws have been attacked in the courts, on the grounds that they violate a woman's fundamental right to choose whether or not to bear children.

1969 November 12, “Significant Step Taken on Abortion”, in St. Petersburg Times (Washington Post Service), retrieved 2009-03-22, page 7D:

(public policy, law, ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of a pregnant person to make the full and final decision either to give birth to their child or to abort the fetus.


right to life

Texas Right to Life, a statewide, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia organization, was organized last summer. Right to Life groups in Dallas and Houston have been active for some time.

1974-03, Martha Hume, "Abortions in Texas", Texas Monthly, page 65

That means women should have the right to be free about their own bodies. I believe a woman has a right to life. The opposition is an anti-freedom group, rather than, as they have very effectively called themselves, a right-to-life group.

1987-06, Dale Keiger, "The Quiet Minority", Cincinnati Magazine, page 68

(US, public policy, law, ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not have its birth prevented through an abortion or other medical procedure.


hymenoplasty

hymenoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural hymenoplasties)

Dr. Robert Stubbs, a Toronto-based plastic surgeon . . . has won international acclaim for refining the hymenoplasty procedure, which involves cutting away the scarred edge of the membrane broken during intercourse and narrowing the entrance of the vagina, then putting the pieces back together.

2008 July 12, Diana Zlomislic, “The Virgin Makers”, in Toronto Star, page L1:

One of the options available to women under such pressure is hymenoplasty, in which a surgeon uses remnants of the hymen or tissue from the vaginal wall to create a "new hymen" that will break and bleed during intercourse.

2010, Emily Maguire, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 36

(medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.


gynaecologist

In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.

1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56:

Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.

1969, Canadian House of Commons, Debates, Official Report, page 8287:

During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).

1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 12, page 194:

According to the Bill, from the moment that the embryo insertion has been completed, the authority for the gynaecologist to have an embryo in his possession immediately and automatically ends.

1984, British House of Commons, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), page 345:

Mr Shikuku: […]Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?
Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.

1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287:

2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,
With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.

(Australia, British spelling, Commonwealth) (Canadian spelling, also common) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.

طَبِيب نِسَاء

specialist in diseases of the female reproductive system


hysterotomy

(surgery) The surgical procedure of making an incision in the uterus, commonly combined with a laparotomy during a caesarean section.


in the family way

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in a family way

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She mentioned that she was in a family way and . . . stated that she needed all her money to pay the doctor's bills at the approaching deliverance.

1855 August 25, “Law Intelligence: Supreme Court—Special Term”, in New York Times, page 8:

Her way of paying for these gift subscriptions was to choose one of her sows which was in a family way and, when the sow littered, to sell its offspring.

1947 November 10, “Dear TIME-Reader”, in Time, retrieved 2008-08-11:

Three pregnancies occur in this novel: Nina, Fran and Danielle all find themselves in a family way.

2005 April 15, Carolyn See, "Squab and Squabbles" (book review of Mothers and Sons by Paul Hond), Washington Post, p. C03 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2008)

in the family way
in the family way#English

(euphemistic) Alternative form of in the family way.


birthing chair

Two nurse-midwives at the Milwaukee Birth Center (MBC), Milwaukee, OR, designed a new birthing chair that has received rave reviews from the first 25 women who used it for labor and delivery.

1984, “Clinical News: Rebirth of the Birthing Chair,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 84, number 7, page 872:

(obstetrics) A chair designed to place a woman who is in labor in a position which facilitates childbirth.


labiaplasty

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Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.

2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties:

Labiaplasty—surgery for reshaping or resizing the inner labia—is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world: in 2016, 45 per cent more labiaplasty procedures were carried out than in 2015, […]

2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:

(surgery) The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.


smear test

(gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


cervical smear

(chiefly gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


Pap test

From Papanikolaou. Named after Greek-American physician Georgios Papanikolaou.

named-after

(gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample ('smear') of cells from the cervix.


menstrual fluid

en-noun

menstrual fluid (countable and uncountable, plural menstrual fluids)

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The mixture of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that constitutes the menses


oligomenorrhoea

/ɒlɪɡə(ʊ)mɛnəˈɹiːə/

/ɑləɡoʊmɛnəˈɹi.ə/

(medicine) Unusually infrequent menstruation.


handywoman

An uncertified midwife; a woman who attends at childbirths but who lacks a medical qualification.


parental leave

parental leave (countable and uncountable, plural parental leaves)

Both my husband and I are on a 3-month parental leave while we look after our newborn baby.

A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.

產假 /产假

leave of absence for a parent to take care of a baby


maternity leave

maternity leave (countable and uncountable, plural maternity leaves)

Coordinate term: paternity leave

My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.

I went on maternity leave in May 2022, so have been away for nearly 14 months.

2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3:

A leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.


culture of death

culture of death (plural cultures of death)

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(theology) In moral theology, the concept that human life can be a means to some other end and not solely an end itself.

cywilizacja śmierci

(philosophy, politics) In contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture asserted to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life", such as cultures that support contraception and abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, human cloning, self-absorption, apathy or poverty.

სიკვდილის კულტურა

in contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture that is deemed to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life"

But can one nevertheless regard suicide bombing as an expression of the political culture—the culture of death—that has emerged in modern times in the Middle East?

2007, Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing, Columbia University Press, page 50:

Still, with ... each individual case ... of individual suicide bombers ... it seems that we have to acknowledge first of all that there is a larger pattern of a culture of death

2007, Israel W. Charny, Fighting Suicide Bombing: A Worldwide Campaign for Life, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 77:

Suicide bombings ... were still wrong because such reasoning promotes a culture of death and nihilism that will take years to erase from the Palestinian narrative

2009, Joshua Craze, Mark Huband, The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century, Hurst Publishers, page 289:

A society that reveres suicide bombers as martyrs.


vernix caseosa

From Latin vernix (“varnish”) + caseosa (“cheesy”).

1888 Austin Flint: A Text-book of human physiology
The protecting coat of vernix caseosa allows the skin to perform its office in utero, and at birth, when this coating is removed, the surface is found in a condition perfectly adapted to extrauterine existence. It is not probable that the vernix caseosa is necessary to facilitate the passage of the child into the world, for the parts of the mother are always sufficiently lubricated with mucous secretion.

1983 Carol Laderman: Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia
She rubbed his body with coconut oil to remove the vernix caseosa. A heavy coating of vernix caseosa, she told me later, is a sure sign that the couple have been having intercourse during the latter part of pregnancy, a practice she considers dangerous. She believes the white vernix caseosa to be an accumulation of semen.

(obstetrics, medecine) The waxy or "cheesy" white substance found coating the skin of newborn humans.


knock-up

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When will we wake up? I see young girls pregnant and young boys adding up their “knock-ups” like a scorecard at a mob gambling venue.

2016, Veronica Valles, Back To The Center, page 54:


misoprostol

From m(ethyl) + iso- + -prost- (“prostaglandin”) + -ol.

af

(pharmacology) A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C₂₂H₃₈O₅.

misoprostol

drug used for the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions


pregorexia

2008, Jane Bainbridge, "Pregorexia: body image over baby?" (article), in British Journal of Midwifery, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 4 2008, page 608.

Pregorexia came on the radar in 2006 when former TV presenter Liz Fraser told Marie Claire magazine about her struggle with bulimia during pregnancy.

2009 July 7, Kevin Courtney, “Pregorexia”, in The Irish Times:

Her dramatic weight loss meant Mrs Bassett had to be taken into hospital when just 11 weeks pregnant. Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.

2012 March 2, Alison Smith-Squire, “The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting fat during pregnancy”, in Daily Mail:

Pregorexia, or 'mommyrexia', as they dub it Stateside, is a growing disorder: women exercising madly all through the pregnancy (there are now scores of websites devoted to selling workout gear for pregnant women, while sizes for maternity clothes these days often include an extra-small, which would be impossibly tiny even for the average non-pregnant woman), […]

2013, Emily Hourican, How to (Really) Be a Mother, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:

A condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.


baby-killer

The Vietnam War veteran usage stems from the My Lai massacre, in which hundreds of civilians, including infants, were massacred.

He promised to protect and serve "even a baby killer like yourself," but also to do everything in his office's power "to assist the protesters who wish to protect the misguided mothers who come to your clinic of death."

1999, Charisma and Christian Life, volume 24, numbers 6-11, page 38:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baby, killer.

(slang, derogatory) An abortionist (all senses).


natural family planning

Timing sexual intercourse to avoid the time of ovulation (if pregnancy is not wanted) or to fall within that time (if pregnancy is desired).


endocervicitis

(medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix


niddah

I assume you, Josh, are perfect. My description of our ideals on that point match; I publically^([sic]) admitted a personal flaw in my not actually being emotionally in tune with my ideal. I assume you do not worry about the current economy, having perfect bitachon, are never beset with hunger on Yom Kippur, or sexual desire when your wife is a niddah, or otherwise ever have your emotions at odds with your ideals.

2009 April 27, Micha Berger, “Avigdor Lieberman, our realistic new Foreign Minister (Naomi Ragen)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Someone whom Halacha considers menstruant.


primiparous

From New Latin prīmiparus, from prīmus (“first”) + pariō (“to give birth”).


pseudopregnancy

en-noun

pseudopregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural pseudopregnancies)

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pregnancy school

pregnancy school (plural pregnancy schools)

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A school exclusively for pregnant girls.


levonorgestrel

(pharmacology) A synthetic progestogen used as an active ingredient in some hormonal contraceptives.


one-child policy

one-child policy (plural one-child policies)

At the same time, it glides over the personal traumas that the one-child policy must cause among innumerable Chinese. Certainly it is awesome to think of a nation that brings its powers of persuasion against a woman's right to conceive.

1984 February 14, John Corry, “Birth Curb in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical) A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child.

поли́тика одного́ ребёнка на одну́ семью́


man-midwife

1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, page 75,
She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also.

1835 May 30, Evidence of Mr, Guthrie before the Parliamentary Medical Committee, The Lancet for 1834-35, Volume 2, page 287,
It is the same with the man-midwife ; he has no time to devote to surgery ; if he has time, he has no means of improving his knowledge in it.

Thus, the answer to the old question of whether man-midwives or midwives were the better birth attendants is not simple. Some midwives were indeed dirty, ignorant, and dangerous; some man-midwives saved lives with their forceps; and some births were doomed to disaster.

2010, Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, page 268:


antepartum

1908, from Latin ante- (“before”) + partum (“giving birth”).

Describing the period before childbirth; antenatal


polymenorrhea

(medicine) Menstrual cycles with intervals of 21 days or fewer.

polimenorrea

menstrual cycles with intervals of 21 days or fewer


partial-birth abortion

partial-birth abortion (plural partial-birth abortions)

Intact dilation and extraction
intact dilation and extraction

(US, law, colloquial) Intact dilation and extraction.


postmenstrually

In a postmenstrual way; after menstruation or its initial onset.


premenstrually

Before menstruation or its initial onset.


preggo

A clipping of pregnant + -o (“diminutive suffix”). First use appears c. 1951 in the novel Come In Spinner. See citations page.

Michael Stivic: Come on, Gloria. No one, no one, is going to deny you your constitutional rights.

1975 October 27, Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin, "Mike Faces Life", episode 6-7 of All in the Family, 00:20:32-00:20:44

So we had a nice rainbow coalition of preggos and their mates — even one lesbian couple.

2007, Philip Lerman, Dadditude: How a Real Man Became a Real Dad, page 56:

2009, Joel Grus, Your Religion Is False, Brightwalton LLC, US, page 105,
Accordingly, they tend to send their gay children off to “conversion therapy” (involving techniques ranging from clitoridectomy to shame) and their pregnant children off to single-sex maternity homes (which are full of all sorts of oddly-titillating preggo-on-preggo action, according to the videos on a website I accidentally stumbled across several times).

2009, Rebeca Seitz, Scrapping Plans, B&H Publishing, US, page 306,
“You bet!” Clay trots back into the diner, reappearing a moment later with a chair. “Here ya go, preggo.”

For more usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

(slang, sometimes offensive) A pregnant female.


maternity ward

A hospital ward that provides assistance during childbirth.


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misgo

en-verb

misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

misgoes (present singular third-person)
misgoing (participle present)
miswent (past)
misgone (participle past)

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.

Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter 45, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

(intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.


nullipara

en-noun

nullipara (plural nulliparas or nulliparae)

The active phase of labour lasts on average 8 hours for the nullipara and 6 hours for the multipara.

2005, Martha Finn, Women's Health: A Core Curriculum, page 147:

spontaneous miscarriage
spontaneous miscarriage

A woman who has never carried a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks (one who has never given birth). It includes women who have experienced spontaneous miscarriages and induced abortions before the mid-point of pregnancy, but not women who have experienced pregnancy loss after 20 weeks.


prepregnancy

After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group.

2007 February 13, Nicholas Bakalar, “Childbirth: Cutting Caffeine Not Found to Affect Birth Weight”, in New York Times:


menstrual period

menstrual period (plural menstrual periods)

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An event of a woman's discharging of menstrual flow of blood and cells.


the rabbit died

Robin finally was able to announce: "Good news! The rabbit died!" She said she was thrilled and that everybody was happy for her except her mother.

1993, Maurice Apprey, Intersubjectivity, Projective Identification, and Otherness, page 153:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Indicates one's own pregnancy, or that someone has found out they are pregnant.


fetus in fetu

(medicine, obstetrics) A fetus growing inside the body of another fetus, either from an unsuccessful twin pregnancy, or as a tumorlike growth.


immunocontraception

(medicine) The use of an immune response to facilitate contraception


contracept

en-verb

contracept (third-person singular simple present contracepts, present participle contracepting, simple past and past participle contracepted)

contracepts (present singular third-person)
contracepting (participle present)
contracepted (participle past)
contracepted (past)

Back-formation from contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.

(transitive) To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals


vulvovaginitis

en-noun

vulvovaginitis (countable and uncountable, plural vulvovaginitises or vulvovaginitides)

vulvovaginitises (plural)
vulvovaginitides (plural)

(medicine) Inflammation of the vulva and vagina.


vulvitis

vulvitis (usually uncountable, plural vulvitides)

(medicine) An often painful inflammation of the vulva.


nonpregnancy

nonpregnancy (usually uncountable, plural nonpregnancies)

The state of not being pregnant (carrying offspring).


nonvertex

(anatomy, chiefly obstetrics) Not of or pertaining to the vertex.


multiple birth

A birth in which more than one baby is born.


period pants

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(British, informal, plural only) Underwear worn by a woman or girl during menstruation, typically old, cheap, or of a dark colour in case of staining.


pseudocyesis

pseudocyesis (usually uncountable, plural pseudocyeses)

From pseudo- + cyesis, from Latin pseudo- + Ancient Greek κύησις (kúēsis).

A false pregnancy; the appearance of signs and symptoms associated with pregnancy when the person or animal is not pregnant.


cock sock

To Barry Sandler, author of the screenplay, an Obscene Oscar—for peddling the year’s outstanding example of R-rated pornography; with special mention for the scene in which Lombard gives Gable a handknitted cock sock […]

1976 May, “Movies”, in Playboy, volume 23, number 5, page 22:

Costume designer Patrick Antosh explains that the birth of the cock sock came from his work on the film American Psycho. “There was a scene with Christian Bale running around entirely naked covered in blood. He didn’t want to do full frontal nudity, so I developed a spandex pouch that fits over the entire genitalia. […]

2003, Paul Ruditis, Queer as Folk: The Book, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 106:

I was scrolling one afternoon when I saw a post from a guy in Melbourne selling crochet cock socks for $150 each.

2020 July 13, Felippe Canale, “Meet the Guy in Melbourne Knitting Socks for Cocks”, in Vice:

(slang, vulgar) A garment designed to cover the penis, either as a novelty item or for the purpose of modesty.


cervicitis

cervicitis (usually uncountable, plural cervicitides or cervicites)

cervicitides (plural)
cervicites (plural)


spontaneous abortion

spontaneous abortion (countable and uncountable, plural spontaneous abortions)


interesting condition

interesting condition (plural interesting conditions)

I cannot honestly report that I have ever seen a feline matron of this class washing her face when in an interesting condition.

1880, Charles Dickens, Great expectations, page 549:

His young wife ... was at church with her mother, and suddenly overcome by indisposition, arising from her interesting condition, she could not remain standing, she drove home in the first sledge, a smart-looking one, she came across.

1917, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnet, Anna Karenina, Part 2, Chapter 5:

... and replied that he was come there about a lady, now an inmate of Horne's house, that was in an interesting condition, poor body, from woman's woe (and here he fetched a deep sigh) and to know if her happiness had yet taken place.

They borrowed a female [cat] in an interesting condition and set their trap under the cypress tree at the top of the vacant lot.

1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, page 168:

That knee-trembler put Angela in an interesting condition and, of course, there was talk.

1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: a memoir, page 15:


vacuum aspiration

vacuum aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural vacuum aspirations)

(medicine) A method of inducing abortion, during the first trimester of pregnancy, in which the embryo and placenta are drawn off through a narrow tube.


vaginal ring

Inequality, research shows, [is why] we still see Aids-related deaths in an era when we have all the antiretrovirals, HIV prevention pills, vaginal rings, injections and harm-reduction plans needed to end the pandemic.

2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The Guardian:

(medicine) A device consisting of a flexible ring held in the vagina which provides a controlled release of drugs, typically used for contraception.


vernix

Derived from Medieval Latin vernix (“varnish”).

The cheesy stuff is called vernix, and it's a natural moisturizer that protects the baby's skin while she's in the womb.

2004, Armin A Brott, The New Father, Mitchell Beazley, published 2011, page 21:

But when – like Troy in the end of the film – you are presented for the first time with an angry, purple, bloody, vernix-covered, shit-smeared, breathing human being, everything changes.

2009 November 7, Sam Leith, The Guardian:

(obstetrics, medicine) Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.


sperminator

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My stomach jumped off a cliff and my legs became stone. The Pill . . . was she on it? I never asked. First shot lucky. The Sperminator.

1998, Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma, page 44:

And the epic pain I was about to endure any day now was going to make the sperminator's backache seem like a hangnail.

2013, Vicki Murphy, MotherFumbler, page 28:

I rubbed elbows with Bravo Housewives Teresa Giudice, Kyle Richards, Brandi Glanville, and Gretchen Rossi, and sperminator Jon Gosselin.

2014, Courtney Robertson, I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain, page 215:

(slang, humorous) A man who impregnates a woman or women.

Men are not getting enough sex: men with their greater levels of testosterone, and their role as sperminators.

1997, Ian Grey, Sex, Stupidity and Greed: Inside the American Movie Industry, page 83:

What chance did a woman stand? The man was the Sperminator — melting all logic and self-restraint in his sensuous wake.

[…] There's so much gorgeous manmeat at Princeton. What about Tim? Now that's the kind of sperminator I went after in college. Big hunky wrestler guy."

2016, Kate Siegel, Mother, Can You Not?, page 136:

(slang, humorous) A desirable or sexually promiscuous man.


multigravida

multigravida (plural multigravidas or multigravidae)

multigravidas (plural)
multigravidae (plural)

If all is well, a multigravida can often push the head out in seconds, but you donʼt want it that way.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 13:

A pregnant woman who has had at least two previous pregnancies.


anti-choice

en-adj

anti-choice (comparative more anti-choice, superlative most anti-choice)

more anti-choice (comparative)
most anti-choice (superlative)

[...her campaign techniques] demonstrate a pattern to deceive potential contributors by failing to disclose without ambiguity that she is soliciting funds for her presidential candidacy and not for the antichoice movement.

1976, NARAL complaint against Ellen McCormack, “Complaint may block federal matching funds”, in the Beaver County Times, 1976 February 18

Gamble also warned the audience that the possibility of judicial change is "not remote". She said that two anti-choice Reagan appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court would put anti-choice justices in the majority by one vote.

1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 1:

(derogatory, dysphemistic) Not pro-choice; opposed to the individual's choice, especially of abortion or euthanasia.


prodeath

prodeath (comparative more prodeath, superlative most prodeath)

more prodeath (comparative)
most prodeath (superlative)

A contrary view was expressed by Helen Cindrich, president of People Concerned for the Unborn Child.
"He (Huyett) has not crumpled under the pressure of the well-funded prodeath profiteers," she said in a press release.

1982 December 8, “Abortion Clinics Prepare For New Law”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:


proabortion

proabortion (comparative more proabortion, superlative most proabortion)

more proabortion (comparative)
most proabortion (superlative)

Supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

abortuszpárti

supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion


anti-choicer

(informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who opposes pro-choice views.


pro-abortionist

One who supports the practice or legality of abortion.

partisan de l’avortement

one who supports or defends the practice and/or legality of abortion


pro-abort

pro-abort (comparative more pro-abort, superlative most pro-abort)

more pro-abort (comparative)
most pro-abort (superlative)

In its newsletter, Defense of Life described Thornburgh as "pro-abort" and said Woods had no recorded abortion position.

1987 April 29, “Thornburgh turns down Reagan offer”, in Gettysburg Times:

As she stood outside the clinic on Saturday, she lamented the lost opportunities as the counterdemonstrators clogged the sidewalks. "They're the real lunatic, pro-abort people," she said[…]

1989 July 17, “Abortion Battle: 2 Foes on Front Lines”, in The New York Times:


midhusband

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By analogy from midwife, where wife long ago meant any woman.

(rare, usually humorous) masculine equivalent of midwife: A male midwife.


denial of pregnancy

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(medicine, psychology) A condition whereby a pregnant woman refuses to accept or recognise her pregnancy.


salpingectomy

From salping- (“of or relating to the salpinx”) + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).

af

(gynaecology, surgery) Surgical removal of the Fallopian tubes.


salpingostomy

(obstetrics, surgery) The surgical unblocking of a blocked Fallopian tube.


Quiverfull

From quiver + full, in reference to the Old Testament: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them."

A conservative evangelical Christian movement that promotes procreation, rejects birth control, and regards children as a blessing from God.


menometrorrhagia

(pathology) Excessive uterine bleeding occurring outside of the normal menstrual period.


ecbolic

en-adj

ecbolic (comparative more ecbolic, superlative most ecbolic)

more ecbolic (comparative)
most ecbolic (superlative)

(medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.


ecbolic

(medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.


procidentia

(medicine) Prolapse, especially of the uterus.


misbirth

From Middle English, from Old English misbyrd (“abortion”), from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“mis-”) +*burdiz, *burþiz (“birth, carriage”). Equivalent to mis- + birth. Cognate with Dutch misgeboorte (“miscarriage”), German Missgeburt (“abortion”). Compare also misbreyde.


aftercoming

From Middle English after comyng, afthercomende, equivalent to after- + coming.

The most important aspect of an assisted vaginal breech delivery is careful delivery of the aftercoming head.

2003, Pitkin, Peattie & Macgowan, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, page 41:

(obstetrics) Specifically, of a baby's head: following the rest of the body out of the womb, rather than (as is usual) preceding it.


menstruator

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Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

2011, Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan, Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules:

The most obvious population of menstruators affected by period poverty is homeless women, who struggle to afford any basic necessity, including shelter. And as we just discussed, period poverty for homeless women can be dangerous and detrimental to their health.

2018, Nadya Okamoto, Period Power, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:


multip

A multiparous woman; one who has given birth twice or more.


nulliparity

In mammals, this transition from nulliparity to motherhood profoundly and fundamentally alters the female’s behavioral and motivational repertoire.

2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin, “Motherhood Induces and Maintains Behavioral and Neural Plasticity across the Lifespan in the Rat”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:

Never having completed a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks.


postpregnancy

Even Cookie, a luxury parenting magazine, recently ran an article that described postpregnancy breasts as “the ultimate indignity” and promoted implant surgery; a photo of droopy water-filled balloons accompanied the article.

2007 October 4, Natasha Singer, “Is the ‘Mom Job’ Really Necessary?”, in New York Times:


laminaria

(gynaecology) A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix.


fœticide

en-noun

fœticide (countable and uncountable, plural fœticides)


jimmy hat

It was a brown wallet, it had props numbers / It had my jimmy hats, I gotta get it man

1990, “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”, in People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, performed by A Tribe Called Quest:

I strap out, step out in every direction / Glock, TECs, jimmy hats, in case I need protection

1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:


drospirenone

But Yaz contains drospirenone, a progestin that can cause excess potassium production in some patients, its side effects include an increased risk of serious heart and other health problems.

2009 February 11, Natasha Singer, “A Birth Control Pill That Promised Too Much”, in New York Times:

(pharmacology) A synthetic progestogen C₂₄H₃₀O₃ that is an analog of spironolactone and is used in birth control pills in combination with ethinylestradiol (trademarks Yasmin and Yaz).


bloody show

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The passage of a small amount of blood or blood-tinged mucus through the vagina near the end of pregnancy.


be born

head

be born (highly irregular; see conjugation table)

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fetus fetishist

en-noun

fetus fetishist (plural fetus fetishists)

"Defeat the fetus fetishists" and "I am more important than a fetus" were among the placards carried by nearly 100 women […]

1972 October 3, Laurie Johnston, “Respect Life Week Stresses the Unborn”, in The New York Times:

As Campbell announced he supported life, Morgentaler cut him off and shouted, "I'm a pro-choicer and a pro-lifer. You are not a pro-lifer; you are a fetus fetishist."

1988 February 10, “TV Opponents Take Gloves Off Following Debate on Abortions”, in Toronto Star:

(Canada, US, politics, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who supports fetal rights; an antiabortionist.


up the kyte

Times change, that's a fact, what the hell am I blethering about, it's been the same since the world began, men have always been getting lassies up the kyte.

1983, Clifford Hanley, Another Street, Another Dance, Mainstream, →ISBN, page 115:


metritis

metritis (countable and uncountable, plural metritides)

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The conjunctive tissue, young and succulent, then becomes hard and fibrous, and the uterus, on section, is pale, indurated and devoid of blood; that is chronic metritis which has reached the second period, or period of induration.

1888, Georges Apostoli, On a New Treatment of Chronic Metritis:

The use of systemic antibiotics is justified and often required for metritis that causes systemic illness.

2008, Thomas J. Divers, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 411:


IDX

intact dilation and extraction
intact dilation and extraction#English

Initialism of intact dilation and extraction.


late-term

en-adj

late-term (comparative more late-term, superlative most late-term)

more late-term (comparative)
most late-term (superlative)

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In, pertaining to, or occurring during an advanced stage, especially of pregnancy.


intact dilation and extraction

en-noun

intact dilation and extraction (countable and uncountable, plural intact dilation and extractions)

intact dilation and extractions (plural)

A late-term surgical abortion procedure, involving (in order) dilation of the cervix, removal of the fetus from the uterus to the shoulders, and emptying of the fetal cranium to allow for easier passage of the head through the cervix and vagina.


delivery room

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Too many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen.

1951 January 1, “Medicine: Without Fear”, in Time:

When the mothers and their babies are brought out of the delivery room, “the postpartum nurse greets them at the desk and starts the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs,’ and how lucky they were to have the nurse in the delivery,” Ms. Callahan said.

2011 November 7, Jordan Rau, “Test for Hospital Budgets: Are the Patients Pleased?”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-01-16:

(medicine) An operating theatre or similar room in a hospital or other medical facility, furnished with suitable equipment and staffed by physicians, surgeons, or other medical workers, for the purpose of assisting mothers with the births of their babies.


have the painters in

en-verb

have the painters in (third-person singular simple present has the painters in, present participle having the painters in, simple past and past participle had the painters in)

has the painters in (present singular third-person)
having the painters in (participle present)
had the painters in (participle past)
had the painters in (past)

(UK, slang, euphemistic, humorous) To menstruate; to be on one's period.


amniorrhexis

(medicine) A rupture of the amniotic sac during pregnancy.


anticontraception

en-adj

anticontraception (comparative more anticontraception, superlative most anticontraception)

more anticontraception (comparative)
most anticontraception (superlative)


fetation

(archaic) The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.


menostasis

(medicine, archaic or homeopathy) menopause


johnny bag

Should he get johnny bags from his big brother's room?

2011, Alison Irvine, This Road Is Red, Luath Press, →ISBN, page 114:


jimmy cap

Giuliana: Oh please, fine, when we did it that night without a jimmy cap...

2010, Giuliana Rancic, Bill Rancic, I Do, Now What?: Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-Love Couple, Ballatine Books, →ISBN, page 132:


love glove

She seemed like she should be accompanied by one of those miniature dogs with a bow in its hair and a heart rate of 1,000 beats per minute and should carry one of those little rhinestone purses that couldn't possibly hold more than a lipstick and a love glove.

1995 June, Paula Poundstone, “Republican field guide”, in Mother Jones:


linea nigra

A dark vertical line, running up the abdomen from the pubis to the navel (though it sometimes runs further, to the top of the abdomen) that forms during pregnancy.

sorturák

dark vertical line on abdomen that forms during pregnancy


pro-abortionism

They see pro-abortionism and reductions in immigration as the same issue.

2007, Brian N. Fry, Nativism and Immigration: Regulating the American Dream, LFB Scholarly Publishing, →ISBN, page 130:

An ideology or policy of support for the practice and/or legalization of abortion.


pro-lifeism

He starts with three strikes against him: Mormonism, Massachusetts-ism and a suspiciously recent conversion to pro-lifeism.

2007 May 11, Howard Fineman, “The Megastates Gamble”, in Newsweek:

An ideology or policy of opposition to abortion.


anti-abortionism

Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.

1991, Mary Nash, “Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain”, in Gisela Bock, Pat Thane, editors, Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880s-1950s, Routledge, published 1994, →ISBN, page 168:

An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.


vampire's teabag

en-noun

vampire's teabag (plural vampires' teabags)

From an allusion between the appearance of a tampon, which has an attached string, and a teabag, along with the fact that a tampon is used to absorb blood, which the mythical vampire is reputed to drink.

I had the unenviable job of clearing one for somebody not long ago and the obstruction turned out to be a number of vampire's teabags gathered in a mass.

2004 July 22, Andy Hall, “Re: Clearing blocked toilet with caustic soda”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):

(slang) A tampon, especially an in-use or used one.


pregnancy test

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A modern pregnancy test looks for human chorionic gonadotropin to determine whether a woman is pregnant.

a piece of test equipment that determines whether a woman, or by extension, a female animal is pregnant


mosquito bite

Half your bones are busted, your body is swollen like one huge mosquito bite, and you're nearly starved to death. Believe me, Champ, you're not okay.

2001, Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8; republished New York, N.Y.: HarperTrophy, 2005, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8, page 121

From there, the cycle may be initiated once again when the sporozoites are released into the blood stream during a mosquito bite.

2002, Jacqueline Stanley, Essentials of Immunology & Serology, Albany, N.Y.: Delmar Thomson Learning, →ISBN, page 403:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mosquito, bite.


superfete

en-verb

superfete (third-person singular simple present superfetes, present participle superfeting, simple past and past participle superfeted)

superfetes (present singular third-person)
superfeting (participle present)
superfeted (participle past)
superfeted (past)

It makes me pregnant and to superfete

1655, James Howell, “The Vote, or a Poem Royal”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.


unabort

unabort (third-person singular simple present unaborts, present participle unaborting, simple past and past participle unaborted)

unaborts (present singular third-person)
unaborting (participle present)
unaborted (participle past)
unaborted (past)

Well, she can't unabort that baby.

1998 January 7, Mr. Nobody, “Re: Building a Consensus Group:”, in alt.abortion (Usenet), message-ID <34B34AA1.23F@toot-toot.com>:

She can't unabort, and trying to blame a previous abortion is rather like blaming illness on that old lady next door cursing you.

1999 March 21, hereticfromsf <hereticfromsf@my-dejanews.com>, “Re: Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (pro-lie disinformation)”, in alt.abortion (Usenet), message-ID <7d3t5h$77s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:

He was practicing aborting his pilot training, but then he really did abort! By then it was too late to unabort, eh Herbot?

2004 September 10, The Lone Weasel, “Re: Bush Piloted Guard Training Jets Just Before Disappearance”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), message-ID <Xns9560B474C36Eloneweaselyahooco@130.133.1.4>:

You'll never be able to unabort the baby that was alive in your womb years ago.

2016, Chris Foote, Unbelief: Overcoming Our Days of Doubt:

(rare) To undo an abortion (in various senses).


PPH

en-noun

PPH (countable and uncountable, plural PPHs)

postpartum hemorrhage
w:postpartum hemorrhage

(obstetrics) Initialism of postpartum hemorrhage.


abruptio placentae

abruptio placentae (plural abruptio placentarum or abruptiones placentarum)

abruptio placentarum (plural)
abruptiones placentarum (plural)

Borrowed from New Latin abruptiō placentae (literally “a breaking off of the placenta”).

bor

(gynaecology) A premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall.


BCP

en-noun

BCP (countable and uncountable, plural BCPs)


ormeloxifene

From [Term?] + (di)me(thy)l + -oxifene (“tamoxifen derivative”).

af

(pharmacology) A selective estrogen receptor modulator.


preg

Pat told me once at their house that I should not play badminton because I might fall. She, who rode horses every day of her pregs!

2008, Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie, Vantage Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:

She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.

2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion, Ballantine, published 2008, →ISBN, page 308:

There was nothing even approaching the near-great, so (and I can't believe I ever had this much free time in my former life) I actually designed and sewed all my preg stuff myself.

2010 June 8, Linda Russell, “Notes from the new-mother zone”, in The Globe and Mail:


premenstrual dysphoric disorder

en-noun

premenstrual dysphoric disorder (countable and uncountable, plural premenstrual dysphoric disorders)

premenstrual dysphoric disorders (plural)

premenstrual syndrome
premenstrual syndrome

A severe form of premenstrual syndrome, associated primarily with the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, and characterized by feelings of despair or anxiety, panic attacks and mood swings, irritability, apathy, and various physical aberrations.


sulfatolamide

(pharmacology) A drug used in gynecology, a combination of sulfathiourea and mafenide.


ablatio placentae

Borrowed from Latin ablatio (“carrying away”) + placentae (“flat cake”).

placental abruption
placental abruption#English

(gynaecology) Synonym of placental abruption


nontherapeutic abortion

nontherapeutic abortion (countable and uncountable, plural nontherapeutic abortions)

(medicine) An abortion not required for medical reasons.


therapeutic abortion

therapeutic abortion (countable and uncountable, plural therapeutic abortions)

/θɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/

(medicine) An abortion indicated by need for the health of the mother or due to the inviable nature of the fetus.


incomplete abortion

incomplete abortion (plural incomplete abortions)

(medicine) An abortion or miscarriage that does not fully remove all product traces of the fetus.


femidom

From female or feminine and condom; originally a trademark.


female condom

sexually transmitted infection
sexually transmitted infection

(sometimes proscribed) A device that is inserted into the vagina or anus during sexual intercourse as a barrier contraceptive to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.


fetoscopy

fetoscopy (countable and uncountable, plural fetoscopies)

An endoscopic procedure during pregnancy to allow access to the fetus, the amniotic cavity, the umbilical cord, and the fetal side of the placenta.


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hematometra

(medicine) A medical condition in which the uterus fills with menstrual blood.


hematocolpos

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + κόλπος (kólpos, “any hollow space; womb”); essentially equivalent to a surface analysis of hemato- + colp- + -us.

(medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.


hymenotomy

(surgery) The surgical removal or opening of the hymen.


Braxton Hicks contraction

Braxton Hicks contraction (plural Braxton Hicks contractions)

Named after John Braxton Hicks, English doctor who described them.

(obstetrics) A sporadic uterine contraction during pregnancy; false labour.

Braxton Hicks contraction
John Braxton Hicks


primigravida

primigravida (plural primigravidas or primigravidae or (archaic) primigravidæ)

primigravidas (plural)
primigravidae (plural)
primigravidæ (archaic plural)

/ˌpɹaɪmɪˈɡɹævɪdə/

/ˌpɹaɪməˈɡɹævɪdə/

From Latin prīmus (“first”) (modelled after primipara) + Medieval Latin gravida (“pregnant woman”), feminine singular of Latin gravidus (“pregnant, gravid”), from gravō (“to burden, weigh down; to make pregnant”) + -idus (adjective-forming suffix meaning “tending to”).

der

[...] [Friedrich] Schatz advises all pregnant women, especially primigravidæ, to consult a physician during the last portion of their pregnancy, and ascertain from him the position of the child, and the necessity, if present, of altering it before labor sets in.

1874 February, “The Conversion of a Facial into a Vertex Presentation by External Manipulation only. By Friedrich Schatz, Rostock. (Archiv für Gynäkologie, v. 2. 1873.)”, in B. F. Dawson, editor, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume VI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Co., publishers, […]; London: John Churchill’s Sons, […], →OCLC, page 659:

In connection with the case, I should like to remind you of the fact that extra-uterine pregnancy occurs more frequently in multigravidae than in primigravidae. This has an important bearing on the etiology of ectopic gestation.

1906 February 12, George Gellhorn, “The Diagnosis of Tubal Pregnancy before Rupture”, in Albert E. Taussig, A. S. Bleyer, editors, Quarterly Bulletin: Medical Department of Washington University, volume IV, number 3, St. Louis, Mo.: [Medical Department of Washington University] office of publication, 1806 Locust Street, […], published March 1906, →OCLC, page 167:

The overwhelming majority of primigravidas seen at the clinic are in their middle teens. All but two of these primigravidas were pregnant before their eighteenth birthday. Of thirty-eight primigravidas interviewed none had completed high school; and of these, the ones that were married had husbands who were engaged in low-skill, manual, low-paying occupations.

1975, María-Luisa Urdaneta, “Fertility and the ‘Pill’ in a Texas Barrio”, in Stanley R. Ingman, Anthony E. Thomas, editors, Topias and Utopias in Health: Policy Studies (World Anthropology), The Hague, Paris: Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page 75:

In the second stage [of labour] for a primigravida, Caesarean section is the method of choice; with a multigravida, a vaginal delivery should be attempted.

1978, Lance Townsend, “Caesarean Section: The Types of Operation”, in Obstetrics for Students, 3rd edition, Melbourne, Vic., Sydney, N.S.W.: The Macmillan Company of Australia, →DOI, →ISBN, page 566:

Primigravidas who find themselves pregnant before they are ready may be more amenable to acceptance if social and financial circumstances are deemed adequate. Multiparas, on the other hand, who feel they have more children than they want may not be abl to overcome feelings of rejection.

1984, Regina P. Lederman, “Anxiety and Conflict in Pregnancy: Relationship to Maternal Health Status”, in Harriet H[elen] Werley, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, editors, Annual Review of Nursing Research, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, part I (Research on Nursing Practice), page 35:

In the primigravida, particularly the heifer and bitch, it is often found that the cause of the dystocia is relatively simple, such as a slight fetomaternal disproportion, and the application of a little assistance is all that is required.

2009, David Noakes, “The Approach to an Obstetric Case”, in David E. Noakes, Timothy J. Parkinson, Gary C. W. England, editors, Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics, 9th edition, Edinburgh, London: Saunders Elsevier, →ISBN, pages 223–224:

A 24-year-old primigravida presents for routine ultrasound at 20 weeks gestation. Based on the ultrasound findings, the patient is diagnosed with twin boys.

2012, Karen M. Schneider, Stephen K. Patrick, “Maternal–Fetal Physiology and Placentation”, in Obstetrics and Gynecology: PreTest™ Self-assessment and Review (PreTest), 13th edition, McGraw-Hill Medical, →ISBN, page 39:

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal who is pregnant for the first time, or who has been pregnant once.

primigràvida

woman who is pregnant for the first time, or who has been pregnant once


keep the baby

en-verb

keep the baby (third-person singular simple present keeps the baby, present participle keeping the baby, simple past and past participle kept the baby)

keeps the baby (present singular third-person)
keeping the baby (participle present)
kept the baby (participle past)
kept the baby (past)


crimson tide

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forced-birther

[…] that we are English, for there is something peculiarly English about modern abortion, and that is why we can bravely claim to be, as the forced-birthers snarl, the abortion capital of the world, no less.

1997, The American Spectator, volume 30, page 88:

(chiefly US, Canada, politics, informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a pro-lifer.


prepregnant

The abdominal wall remains lax for 6-8 weeks when it has nearly returned to its prepregnant condition.

2005, Bob Flaws, Chinese Medical Obstetrics, page 214:


have one's tubes tied

have one's tubes tied (third-person singular simple present has one's tubes tied, present participle having one's tubes tied, simple past and past participle had one's tubes tied)

has one's tubes tied (present singular third-person)
having one's tubes tied (participle present)
had one's tubes tied (participle past)
had one's tubes tied (past)

My sister had her tubes tied after her fifth pregnancy.

(colloquial, medicine) To undergo a tubal ligation.

se faire ligaturer les trompes (de Fallope)


tubal ligation

en-noun

tubal ligation (countable and uncountable, plural tubal ligations)

Coordinate term: vasectomy (analogous procedure for male anatomy)

(medicine) A surgical procedure for female sterilization in which the Fallopian tubes are blocked or severed.

輸卵管結紮術 /输卵管结扎术

procedure in which the Fallopian tubes are blocked or severed


oligomenorrheic

en-adj

oligomenorrheic (comparative more oligomenorrheic, superlative most oligomenorrheic)

more oligomenorrheic (comparative)
most oligomenorrheic (superlative)

While more than 90% of oligomenorrheic patients will ovulate, those patients who fail to ovulate need to be informed of alternatives to clomiphene administration.

2010, Marsha B. Baker, Kristin A. Bendikson, “Induction of Ovulation”, in T. Murphy Goodwin, Martin N. Montoro, Laila Muderspach, Richard Paulson, Subir Roy, editors, Management of Common Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 435:

If this patient had also become oligomenorrheic or amenorrheic in the process of losing weight, return of menses—which may occur with increased fat consumption and minimal weight regain—can also serve as a functional marker of improvement.

2011, Katharine L. Loeb, Katherine E. Craigen, Michel Munk Goldstein, James Lock, Daniel Le Grange, “Early Treatment for Eating Disorders”, in Daniel Le Grange, James Lock, editors, Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinical Handbook, The Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 343:

In bed rest studies, women with normal reproductive function exposed to simulated microgravity frequently become oligomenorrheic.

2011, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, The National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 224:

Of, pertaining to, or experiencing oligomenorrhea.


eumenorrheic

eumenorrheic (comparative more eumenorrheic, superlative most eumenorrheic)

more eumenorrheic (comparative)
most eumenorrheic (superlative)

At the start of a competitive collegiate season, healthy eumenorrheic (normally menstruating) gymnasts will have a lower body fat percentage and higher average bone mineral density than eumenorrheic non-athletic controls.

2010, Michael Brunet, Unique Considerations of the Female Athlete, Delmar Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 137:

The prevalence of eumenorrhea among women with PCOS is significantly increased if the Rotterdam diagnostic criteria are applied, because hirsute eumenorrheic women with polycystic ovaries are included.

2010, Marc A. Fritz, Leon Speroff, Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, Wolters Kluwer Health, →ISBN, page 514:

Equations that have been developed for eumenorrheic females (normal menstruating females) may overestimate the percentage of BF for females with anorexia nervosa (AN) because the bone mineral content levels of eumenorrheic females may be higher than those of amenorrheic females […]

2012, Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Vanessa Bayer, “Exercise Guidelines: Specific Recommendations for Women and Children with Eating Disorders”, in Kristin L. Goodheart, James R. Clopton, Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, editors, Eating Disorders in Women and Children: Prevention, Stress Management, and Treatment, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 324:

Of, pertaining to, or experiencing eumenorrhea.


eumenorrhea

From eu- + meno- + -rrhea or eu- + menorrhea.

Runners with amenorrhea experience more running-related injuries than runners with eumenorrhea, and an increased incidence of stress fractures.

1998, Emily M. Haymes, Priscilla M. Clarkson, “Minerals and Trace Minerals”, in Jacqueline R. Berning, Suzanne Nelson Steen, editors, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 80:

In eumenorrhea, menstrual cycles occur at intervals of 25 to 35 days.

2013, Anne B. Loucks, “Menstruation Function and Dysfunction in the Female Athlete”, in Katherine A. Beals, editor, Nutrition and the Female Athlete: From Research to Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 208:


dysmenorrheic

dysmenorrheic (comparative more dysmenorrheic, superlative most dysmenorrheic)

more dysmenorrheic (comparative)
most dysmenorrheic (superlative)

/ˌdɪsmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/

It is more recently the opinion of specialists that psychogenic symptoms may be associated with some dysmenorrheic patients, but that these symptoms are not necessarily the cause of physical complaints.

2000, Rebecca G. Stephenson, Linda J. O'Connor, Obstetric and Gynecologic Care in Physical Therapy, SLACK Incorporated, published 2000, →ISBN, page 53:

In severely dysmenorrheic women, there is exaggerated uterine contractility and a significantly higher prostaglandin content in the menstrual blood with a twofold to tenfold increase when compared with women who do not have menstrual pain.

2002, Ethel Sloan, Biology of Women, Delmar Thomson Learning, published 2002, →ISBN, page 99:

Baker and colleagues (1999) reported that dysmenorrheic women had reduced sleep efficiency when experiencing menstrual pain, with increased wakefulness, movement, and stage 1 sleep compared to pain-free phases of their cycle.

2012, Helen S. Driver, “Sleep and Gender: The Paradox of Sex and Sleep?”, in Charles M. Morin, Colin Espie, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 276:

Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.


nonstress test

A screening test used in pregnancy, in which a cardiotocograph is used to monitor the fetal heart rate.


midpregnant

In the middle of pregnancy; during pregnancy.


cryptomenorrhea

From crypto- + meno- + -rrhea or crypto- + menorrhea.

A condition in which menstruation occurs, but the flow of the discharge is blocked.


menoxenia

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From meno- (“month, menstrual”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + -ia.


reproductive right

en-noun

reproductive right (plural reproductive rights)

If the reproductive right is interpreted as basic rights of one individual in contrast to the right to life of another, especially that of a defenseless unborn baby, it raises certain fundamental moral questions.

2007, Alex Vadakumthala, Reproductive Health: Catholic Ethics and Praxis in India, New Delhi: Health Commission, Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15, →ISBN:

But the vacancy on the court is a reminder that the next president will have great influence over the future of reproductive rights.

2016 March 3, “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

When this reproductive right extends to a control over someone else's body it is an intrusion into another person's body to have children. […] Surrogacy practice involves a control of another human being's body to fulfil one's own reproductive desires and this procedure violates another person's human dignity and reproductive rights.

2018, Sheela Saravanan, A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India, Singapore: Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174, →ISBN:

(chiefly in the plural) Any right associated with family planning, such as the right to birth control and the right to abortion.


phantom pregnancy

phantom pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural phantom pregnancies)

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Norplant

A form of birth control consisting of levonorgestrel capsules implanted under the skin.


v-ring

a vaginal or intravaginal ring that releases hormones for the purpose of contraception


tube tying

tube tying (countable and uncountable, plural tube tyings)

The procedure of tying the Fallopian tubes for the purpose of contraception.


rachipagus

(medicine, obstetrics) A conjoined twin, or a pair of conjoined twins, exhibiting fusion of the back.


minipill

A contraceptive pill containing only synthetic progestogens (progestins), not estrogen.


COCP

Initialism of combined oral contraceptive pill.


MFPR

Abbreviation of multifetal pregnancy reduction. The abortion of one or more fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy.


ECP

For maximum effectiveness, ECP treatment should be started as soon as possible after unprotected intercourse, and within 120 hours.

2007, Felicia Stewart with James Trussell and Paul F.A. Van Look, “Emergency Contraception”, in Robert A. Hatcher, James Trussell, Anita L. Nelson, Willard Cates Jr., Felicia H. Stewart, Deborah Kowal, editors, Contraceptive Technology, 19th edition, Ardent Media, page 106:

Initialism of emergency contraceptive pill.


ECP

(Singapore, in road signs) Initialism of East Coast Parkway.


women's troubles

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(dated, euphemistic) Unpleasant symptoms associated with menstruation.


menstruality

Voraciousness was connected to menstruality—Aristotle mentions that barren women whose menses collect but do not get expelled are prone to sexual incontinence.

2013, Joan Cadden, Nothing Natural Is Shameful:


up the stump

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Science is up the stump. She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange.

1900, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 7, page 216:

He said old Dr. Blank had been attending to him all day, but was “up the stump” and wanted me to help.

1907, The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 14, page 662:

Just today I gave his history class a few questions to answer and hand in, but when it came time to answering the last two he was up the stump.

2001, Suzanne L. Bunkers, Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(informal) At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.


salpingotomy

(obstetrics, surgery) The operation of making an incision into a Fallopian tube to remove an ectopic.


nonmenstruation

Absence of menstruation; failure to menstruate.


shark week

shark week (countable and uncountable, plural shark weeks)

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A jocular reference to Shark Week, an annual week-long marathon of shark-related programming on Discovery Channel, which, like a menstrual period, is bloody.

There are several ways to green your Shark Week, ranging from bare-minimum "shucks, why not?" consciousness to Burning Man aggro hippie.

2008, Coco Tanaka, "Shark Week!", LA CityBeat, Volume 6, Number 36, 4 September 2008 - 10 September 2008, page 17

If you've booked a hotel room, STAIN, and it's shark week for the wife, or a certain former senator drops in (drops out?) when you have anal sex, there's always the option of bringing your own santorum- and/or menstrual-blood-coloured/stained towels from home.

2012, Dan Savage, "Hotel room clean-up", Now (Toronto), Volume 31, Number 29, 15 March 2012 - 21 March 2012, page 102

Imagine my shock at discovering what those little bins with the flaps in bathrooms were really for, or that when girls mentioned shark week they didn't mean there was a Jaws marathon on SBS.

2014, Michael Walsh, "Christening the backyard," Catalyst Magazine (RMIT University), Volume 70, Issue 2, April 2014, page 43

(informal, humorous, chiefly Canada, US) The week during which a woman menstruates.


babymaking

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But for our own peculiar species of primate, sex is about something more. Sex is about babymaking.

2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon:

The act or process of conceiving or giving birth to a baby.


hypermenorrhea

/ˌhaɪpəɹmɛnəˈɹiːə/


Rokitansky nodule

Rokitansky nodule (plural Rokitansky nodules)

(gynaecology) A mass or lump in an ovarian teratomatous cyst.

Baron Carl von Rokitansky
Rokitansky nodule


menstrual synchrony

The alleged synchronization of the menstrual cycle of two or more women who live in close proximity


in the pudding club

* Possibly derived from the round shape of a pregnant abdomen, resembling that of a traditional boiled pudding.
* An alternative suggestion is an association with dialectal English pod (“belly”), German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Low German Puddek (“lump, pudding”).

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, colloquial, slang) Pregnant.


in pig

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‘I am in pig, what d'you think of that?’
‘A most hideous expression, Linda dear,’ said Aunt Emily, ‘but I suppose we must congratulate you.’

1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 84:

(of a sow) Pregnant; also (humorous) used of a woman.


nuchal cord

An umbilical cord that has become wrapped 360 degrees around the neck of a foetus.

臍帶繞頸 /脐带绕颈

umbilical cord that has become wrapped around the neck of a foetus