Obstetricians use the term multip as shorthand for multiparous, the adjective describing a woman who has given birth to more than one child. A woman who is nulliparous has not given birth at all, and a primipara has given birth only once. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Multip, Primip, and Nulliparous: Obstetric Birth-History Terms”
I stumbled across a word that was new to me the other day, MULTIP, M-U-L-T-I-P.
That’s familiar.
What is that?
It is literally familiar if you’re talking about family because it is a term used by obstetricians to refer to a woman who has given birth more than once.
Multi.
It’s a shortening of a longer word, multiparous, which means to have given birth more than once.
It’s related to the term nulliparous, N-U-L-L-I-P-A-R-O-U-S, nulliparous, which means never having given birth.
And then there’s primip, which is having given birth once.
Oh, is that right?
And so a woman who’s given birth once, she’s a primipora.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Primipora.
I mean, I don’t know that that word is actually used by anyone, but it’s in the dictionary.
But a primip, huh?
Is the short version of it?
Well, I think they say primip for the short version and primipora for the name of the woman, what you would call her.
She’s a primipora.
Who knew?
Or not just a woman, but it could be animals as well.
They use these terms across the animal kingdom.
Cool.
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