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delivery room en · NOUN

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1. An operating theatre or similar room in a hospital or other medical facility, furnished with suitable equipment and staffed by physicians, surgeons, or other medical workers, for the purpose of assisting mothers with the births of their babies.
   • When the mothers and their babies are brought out of the delivery room, “the postpartum nurse greets them at the desk and starts the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs,’ and how lucky they were to have the nurse in the delivery,” Ms. Callahan said. 2011 November 7, Jordan Rau, “Test for Hospital Budgets: Are the Patients Pleased?”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jan 2012:
   • Too many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen. 1951 January 1, “Medicine: Without Fear”, in Time:

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sk pôrodnica (room in a hospital) · fr salle d'accouchement (room in a hospital) · ms bilik bersalin (room in a hospital) · ja 分娩室 (room in a hospital) · id bilik persalinan (room in a hospital) · pt sala de parto (room in a hospital) · fi synnytyshuone (room in a hospital) · de Geburtsraum (room in a hospital) · cmn 產房 /产房 (room in a hospital) · sv förlossningsrum (room in a hospital) · ko 분만실 (room in a hospital) · hu szülőszoba (room in a hospital) · da fødestue (room in a hospital) · it sala parto (room in a hospital) · ko 산실 (room in a hospital) · id kamar bersalin (room in a hospital) · es paritorio (room in a hospital) · id ruang bersalin (room in a hospital) · bg родилна зала (room in a hospital) · de Kreißsaal (room in a hospital) · nl verloskamer (room in a hospital)