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Maternity ward   /mətˈərnɪti wɔrd/   Listen
Maternity ward

noun
1.
A hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants.





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"Maternity ward" Quotes from Famous Books



... asked us to shelter for a few days until she could be used as a witness, was clutching a battered doll which she had kept with her during her six months of an "evil life." Two of these prematurely aged children came to us one day directly from the maternity ward of the Cook County hospital, each with a baby in her arms, asking for protection, because they did not want to go home for fear of "being licked." For them were no jewels nor idle living such as the storybooks portrayed. The first of the older women whom ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams


Words linked to "Maternity ward" :   ward, hospital ward


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