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Parturition :: Parturition (n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth..

Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor..

Maieutical :: Maieutical (a.) Serving to assist childbirth.

Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in..

Childbirth :: Childbirth (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

Preternatural :: Preternatural (a.) Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor..

Obstetricious :: Obstetricious (a.) Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance..

Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of..

Afterpains :: Afterpains (n. pl.) The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth..

Travail :: Travail (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

Midwife :: Midwife (n.) A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

Midwife :: Midwife (v. t.) To assist in childbirth.

Lochia :: Lochia (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

Lying-in :: Lying-in (n.) The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement..

Throe :: Throe (n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition..

Labor :: Labor (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..

Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..

Midwifery :: Midwifery (n.) Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.

Labor :: Labor (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

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