semester hour
credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
breech delivery
breech birth
breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
contraceptive
preventive preventative contraceptive device
prophylactic device
birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
hour hand
little hand | the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours |
pill birth control pill
contraceptive pill
oral contraceptive pill
oral contraceptive
anovulatory drug
anovulant | a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception |
hour
minute | distance measured by the time taken to cover it, we live an hour from the airport, its justminutes away |
| birth canal | a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth |
Virgin Birth
Nativity | the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father, Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles, the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas |
| birth certificate | a copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth |
birth
nativity
nascency
nascence | the event of being born, they celebrated the birth of their first child |
| live birth | the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation) |
| posthumous birth | birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother |
| posthumous birth | birth of a child after the father has died |
carissa plum
natal plum | edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant |
birthplace
place of birth | the place where someone was born |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
| hour circle | a great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through both celestial poles |
| Natal | a port city in northeastern Brazil |
Natal
KwaZulu-Natal | a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean, Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in |
| birth | a baby born, an offspring, the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every births |
low-birth-weight baby
low-birth-weight infant | an infant born weighing less than . pounds ( grams) regardless of gestational age, a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor |
hedge thorn
natal plum Carissa bispinosa | South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit, frequently used as hedging |
natal plum
amatungulu
Carissa macrocarpa
Carissa grandiflora | very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves |
flower-of-an-hour
flowers-of-an-hour
bladder ketmia
black-eyed Susan Hibiscus trionum | annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers, Old World tropics, naturalized as a weed in North America |
| active birth | childbirth during which the mother is encouraged to be an active participant |
alternative birth
alternative birthing | a method of childbirth that avoids intrusive high-tech medicine in favor of more natural and homely settings |
childbirth
childbearing
accouchement
vaginal birth | the parturition process in human beings, having a baby, the process of giving birth to a child |
| parthenogenesis parthenogeny virgin birth | human conception without fertilization by a man |
parturition
birth
giving birth
birthing | the process of giving birth |
| ampere-hour | a unit of charge equal to coulombs |
| light hour | the distance light travels in a vacuum in one hour, approximately one billion kilometers |
| watt-hour | a unit of energy equal to the power of one watt operating for one hour |
kilowatt hour
kW-hr
Board of Trade unit
B.T.U. | a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of watts operating for one hour |
| horsepower-hour | a unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour |
parentage
birth | the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents |
hour angle
HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
| birth trauma | emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness |
| birth trauma | physical injury to an infant during the birth process |
birth pangs
labor pains
labour pains | a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth |
birth defect
congenital anomaly
congenital defect
congenital disorder
congenital abnormality | a defect that is present at birth |
| hours | an indefinite period of time, they talked for hours |
| hours | a period of time assigned for work, they work long hours |
| birth | the time when something begins (especially life), they divorced after the birth of the child, his election signaled the birth of a new age |
day
twenty-four hours
twenty-four hour period
-hour interval
solar day
mean solar day | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis, two days later they left, they put on two performances every day, there are , passengers per day |
| late-night hour | the latter part of night |
| small hours | the hours just after midnight |
| early-morning hour | an hour early in the morning |
| sidereal hour |
of a sidereal day |