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intrapartum

adjective

intrapartum is an adjective meaning “During parturition (childbirth; labor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-R-A-P-A-R-T-U-M, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does intrapartum mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    During parturition (childbirth; labor).

    intrapartum fetal demise

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is intrapartum?

Intrapartum appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does intrapartum come from?

From intra- + Latin partum (“giving birth”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).