delivery
80
3.0
- noun
- /dɪˈlɪvəri/
:
parto
- Her first two pregnancies were uneventful, with normal deliveries, and she has two healthy children.
- labor and delivery
- vaginal delivery
- caesarean delivery
Far fewer male embryos make it to delivery compared with females.
- Far fewer male embryos make it to delivery compared with females.
- It is not some random assignment that's made in the delivery room by a doctor or a nurse.
- So what was Kentucky doing around reducing early elective delivery?
- Imagine getting triggered by the two of us saying we don't care about labor and delivery stories.
- We are not telling you the day we're going in for delivery until you do what is going on.
- The risks of fistula, as I mentioned, are obstructed delivery and a lack of emergency obstetric care.
- And this is me as a grown woman and seeing another creator who was able to basically have an entire private birth, private delivery.
- She came back and told me Jake wouldn't be in the delivery room because he was, quote, uncomfortable with blood and medical procedures.
- And so anybody with a darker skin pigment is at very high risk of having low vitamin D and very high risk of pre term delivery.
- I went and held my wife's hand in the in the delivery room and you know, difficult experience for me, but I did it, OK, did it twice with both kids.
Examples
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Our results suggest that caesarean delivery may be helpful if it can be done before the membranes rupture.
Academic text (1991) -
Pregnancy can only be considered normal in retrospect, after the safe delivery of a healthy baby.
Academic text (2011) -
I pray that my wife made it through the delivery.
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And we realize we are entering a hospital labor delivery room at LA County Hospital.
Fiction book (2001) -
She's busy in the delivery room.
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Premature birth or low birth weight... and a traumatic delivery can be associated with this condition.
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Just weeks ago I stood in the delivery room, blessed to see the birth of my first born son, who I love more than life itself.
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All of the parents we interviewed expressed that their child's delivery was very traumatic, which supports previous findings (9).
Academic text (2015) -
During the delivery, the doctors monitored the baby's heartbeat closely.
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She felt relieved when the delivery was over and her baby was healthy.
Synonyms
204
3.5
A woman's time of having a baby, from the first pains to the baby being born
82
2.3
The time when a woman has a baby
53
1.9
To have a baby when it comes out of the mother's body
34
3.3
The act of giving birth to a baby
4
7.6
The time from when a woman begins labor until she gives birth
3
8.1
The act of giving birth to a baby
2
3.4
The physical stages a person goes through when a baby comes out of their body
1
9.9
The time when a baby is born
Helping a woman to give birth, often by doctors or nurses
The time when a person or animal gives birth
The time when a woman gives birth and the period just after birth
Compounds
- Informal
26
2.2
A young man who delivers food and packages to homes by bicycle or motorbike
- Specialized
5
3.4
The way people get health services from places like a hospital or clinic
- Specialized
1
5.1
A medical way to help a baby out of the birth canal using metal tools to hold its head
- Specialized
1
7.1
A birth when the baby comes feet or bottom first instead of head first
A birth by an operation that cuts the mother's lower belly and womb to take out the baby
- Specialized
A tool used to carry genes into cells for research or treatment
- Specialized
A virus that carries new genes into cells for treatment or research
How Difficult
- Specialized
1
3.7
- Specialized
80
3.0
1
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Delivery comes from old words that meant 'set free', with the root liber (as in liberty). A helpful way to remember this is that childbirth is the baby being 'delivered' or set 'free' into the world, which is why birth is called a 'delivery'.