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)