| NOUN | state | parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed | concluding state of pregnancy |
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| Meaning | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. | |
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| Synonyms | labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed | |
| Part of | pregnancy, gestation, maternity | The state of being pregnant |
| Parts | asynclitism, obliquity | The presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle |
| effacement | shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | |
| uterine contraction | A rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal | |
| Narrower | premature labor, premature labour | labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation |
| Broader | parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing | The process of giving birth |
| Spanish | embarazo, gestación | |
| Catalan | embaràs, gestació | |
| Adjectives | parturient | of or relating to or giving birth |
| parturient | giving birth | |
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