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• child-birth

語源

From 中期英語 childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child +‎ birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldˌbɝθ/

名詞

childbirth (usually uncountable, plural childbirths)

1. The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy; the process by which it happens.

   Synonym: parturition

   Antonym: death

   Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)

   • 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:

     The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

関連する語

• birth
• birthchild

参考

• accoucheur
• maternity ward
• obstetrician
• puerperal

アナグラム

• birthchild