Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun parturiency
1 sense of parturiency
Sense 1
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours")
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing -- (the process of giving birth)