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delivery room

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, sciences

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Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: родилна зала (rodilna zala) — room in a hospital
  • Chinese Mandarin: 產房 /产房 (chǎnfáng) — room in a hospital
  • Danish: fødestue — room in a hospital
  • Dutch: verloskamer — room in a hospital
  • Finnish: synnytyshuone — room in a hospital
  • French: salle d'accouchement — room in a hospital
  • German: Kreißsaal — room in a hospital
  • German: Geburtsraum — room in a hospital
  • Hungarian: szülőszoba — room in a hospital
  • Indonesian: kamar bersalin — room in a hospital
  • Indonesian: ruang bersalin — room in a hospital
  • Indonesian: bilik persalinan — room in a hospital
  • Italian: sala parto — room in a hospital
  • Japanese: 分娩室 (bunbenshitsu) — room in a hospital
  • Korean: 산실 (sansil) — room in a hospital
  • Korean: 분만실 (bunmansil) — room in a hospital
  • Malay: bilik bersalin — room in a hospital
  • Portuguese: sala de parto — room in a hospital
  • Slovak: pôrodnica — room in a hospital
  • Spanish: paritorio — room in a hospital
  • Swedish: förlossningsrum — room in a hospital