delivery room

noun

: a special room in a hospital where women give birth to babies

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In her post, Jessie also included some throwback snaps from Denver’s first few days earthside, including several photos from the delivery room. Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026 Many maternal deaths happen not in the delivery room but in the weeks after a baby comes home, once the visits stop and the world assumes the hard part is over. John Boozman, Time, 23 June 2026 The night in the delivery room is long. Literary Hub, 19 June 2026 And in that moment, somewhere between the bench and the hospital, another Hurricane rode shotgun in an unmarked police car (silver Mustang, lights on) speeding toward the delivery room for the birth of his own son. Sean Gentille, New York Times, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for delivery room

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delivery room

noun
: a hospital room especially equipped for the delivery of pregnant women
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