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

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..

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..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth..

Midwifery :: Midwifery (n.) The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

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

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

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..

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

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

Puerperal :: Puerperal (a.) Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever..

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

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

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

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

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..

Accoucheur :: Accoucheur (n.) A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

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

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

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

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