parity
- noun
- /ˈpærɪti/
- Specialized
:
paridad
- When evaluating the participants, they recorded each woman's parity to assess their childbirth history.
- age and parity
- mean parity
- first parity
Examples
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There were no differences between the women at baseline in age, height, weight, gravidity, parity, and gestational stage (Table 1).
Academic text (1994) -
In their study, researchers analyzed the effects of age, education, and parity on maternal health outcomes.
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There were also no significant differences in the number of children per household (parity) between the normal and high-stress groups.
Academic text (1996) -
Points to consider when choosing the speculum are the woman's age and build, and her parity.
Academic text (2011) -
In both hospitals, mean parity and proportion of primiparous women were similar (Table 1).
Academic text (2013) -
Baseline data included maternal age, gravidity, parity, estimated gestational age, and Bishop score prior to catheter insertion and after catheter expulsion.
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The doctor noted that her parity was three, indicating she had given birth to three live children.
Synonyms
1
9.8
A woman who has given birth to live children or the number of those children
Compounds
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1
5.8
A way to find errors in digital data by checking whether the number of ones is even or odd
- Specialized
A rule in physics that switching left and right gives the same result
- Specialized
A small extra binary digit added so the total number of 1s is even or odd to find errors
How Many
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Surface Forms
Morphology
parity = par (opaque) = par + ity
The medical sense 'number of liveborn children' is a conventional obstetric term and is not derivable from the ordinary idea of equality.
Etymology
Parity in medicine means the number of live babies a woman has had. A helpful way to remember this is that it links to old Latin words about 'giving birth' like parous, so parity names how many births a woman has experienced.