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delivery room

noun

an area in a hospital equipped for delivering babies.
a room or area in which deliveries are made or received, as the section of a public library where books are taken out or returned.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of delivery room¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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Okula rushed back to the delivery room in a shocked state and found “15 people doing all these different interventions to bring her back.”

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Five more lawyers quit, plus one who did so from the hospital delivery room.

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It’s not like there was something about this particular patient that set her off, and it’s not like she was dealing with the drama of the delivery room.

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Brock, who was in private practice and not employed by Cedars-Sinai at the time of his termination, denied any accusations of sexual misconduct and said “these few anonymous allegations” were not indicative of his skills or “my character that I have shown day-in and day-out in my practice and in the delivery room for 46 years.”

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Seriously, that was Melissa’s verdict on the guy who said Democrats would allow doctors to “execute the baby” in the delivery room: Strong views!

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deliveryman delivery system

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