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quadriparous

quadriparous adjective: having given birth to four offspring.

Adjective

quadriparous (not comparable)

  1. Having given birth to four offspring.
    • Quadriparous patients had more sufficient samples than others. None of the patients were nuliparous.2004, F. Behnamfar et al., "Diagnostic Value of Endometrial Sampling with Pipelle Suction Curettage for Identifying Endometrial Lesions in Patients with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding", Journal of...
    • Six young nulliparous (6-month-old) and 6 old multiparous (tri- or quadriparous, 2-year-old) female Japanese white rabbits (body weight 3.0 kg) were killed by […]1993, Sohei Tokunaka et al., “Proportions of fiber types in the external urethral sphincter of young nulliparous and old multiparous rabbits”, in Urological Research
  2. Laying four eggs.

Origin of quadriparous

From quadri- + -parous.

Questions about quadriparous

What does quadriparous mean?
Quadriparous means having given birth to four offspring.
What part of speech is quadriparous?
Quadriparous is an adjective.

Words near quadriparous in the dictionary

  1. quadriparental
  2. quadripareses
  3. quadriparesia
  4. quadriparesis
  5. quadriparetic
  6. quadriparous
  7. quadripartite
  8. quadripartitely
  9. quadripartites
  10. quadripartition
  11. quadripartitioned

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