giving birth at home; home delivery; home birth
estimate (of costs); budget
leather; leather-bound; leathern
travel; trip; journey; excursion; tour
euphemistic; circumlocutory; roundabout; indirect
someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person
disinfection; sterilization; sterilisation
separate room; another room; special room; (arch.) concubine (of a noble)
fixing (in place); being fixed (in place); fixing (e.g. salary, capital); keeping the same; fixation (histology); user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously)
tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
simplicity; convenience; easiness; quasi-
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
anesthetic; anaesthetic; narcotic
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
way of justification, sorting, etc.
poor doctor; inept doctor; quack
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
choice; selection; diagnosis; medical opinion; judgement; opinion
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation
to apply (a rule); to be applicable; to come under (a category); to fulfill; to hold true
death rate; mortality rate
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
backing (for a position); giving support to; helping (someone) to a position
adoption; acceptance; confiscation; midwifery; midwife
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
labour pains; labor pains; birth pains; contractions
the opposite direction; the other way
rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge
middle period; medium-term
according to (depending on) the mood of the moment; as one's fancy dictates