delivery room

noun

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

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On Sunday, June 7, the influencers shared a black-and-white photo of themselves with their daughter in the delivery room on Instagram, announcing the loss of their rainbow baby during the final month of pregnancy. Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 8 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 The headlines ask what went wrong in a delivery room, emergency department, or postpartum ward, while far less attention is given to the years—sometimes decades—of inequity that made those outcomes more likely in the first place. Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 His cousin, who worked as an OB-GYN, snuck him into a delivery room. Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for delivery room

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Medical Definition

delivery room

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