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) |
seventeen-year locust
periodical cicada
Magicicada septendecim | North American cicada, appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take to years to mature |
two-year-old horse
two year old | a racehorse that is two years old |
three-year-old horse
three year old | a racehorse that is three years old |
contraceptive
preventive preventative contraceptive device
prophylactic device
birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
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 |
| 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 |
| class year | a body of students who graduate together, the class of ', she was in my year at Hoehandle High |
birthplace
place of birth | the place where someone was born |
| 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 |
| 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 |
light year
light-year | the distance that light travels in a vacuum in year, . trillion miles or . trillion kilometers |
parentage
birth | the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents |
| 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 |
| sabbatical year | a sabbatical leave lasting one year |
| 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 |
church year
Christian year | the year in the ecclesiastical calendar, especially feast days and special seasons |
| Holy Year | (Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every years) |
New Year's Eve
December | the last day of the year |
New Year's Day
New Year's
January | the first day of the year |
| New Year | the calendar year just begun |
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashonah
Rosh Hashona
Jewish New Year | (Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the st or st and nd of Tishri, noted for the blowing of the shofar |
| year | the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun, a Martian year takes of our days |
| anomalistic year | time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, days and hr and min and . sec |
| year-end | the end of a calendar year, he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end |
common year
days | a year that is not a leap year |
leap year
intercalary year
days
bissextile year | in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by except centenary years divisible by |
| off year | a year in which no major political elections are held |
| off year | a year in which productivity is low or inferior |
calendar year
civil year | the year (reckoned from January to December ) according to Gregorian calendar |
solar year
tropical year
astronomical year
equinoctial year | the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes |
| lunar year | a period of lunar months |
fiscal year
financial year | any accounting period of months |
school year
academic year | the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying |