birth

     

Birth is the process in animals by which an offspring is physiologically expelle from the body of its mother. Different forms of birth are oviparity, vivipary or ovovivipary.

Trivia about birth

  • In 1924 Viennese psychologist Otto Rank wrote a book on "The Trauma of" this early life experience
  • You probably made your first entrance through this "canal"
  • Bierce defined this event as "The first and direst of all disasters"; his occured on June 24, 1842
  • Psychologist Otto Rank ranked this trauma as the no. 1 cause of neurosis
  • Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind"
  • The Constitution includes jus soli, meaning citizenship is determined by this; not everyone's happy about that