premature labor
1premature labor — n the labor preceding premature delivery * * * preterm labor labor that takes place before the normal end of gestation, usually meaning between the twentieth and the thirty seventh completed weeks after onset of the last menstrual period …
2premature labor — Labor as characteristic in childbirth but occurring before the usual time, unexpectedly early. See miscarriage …
3premature labor — noun labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation • Syn: ↑premature labour • Hypernyms: ↑parturiency, ↑labor, ↑labour, ↑confinement, ↑lying in, ↑travail, ↑ …
4habitual premature labor — premature labor occurring in at least three successive pregnancies at about the same stage of development and prior to completion of the full gestation period …
5Premature birth — ] *anxietycite journal |author=Dole N, Savitz DA, Hertz Picciotto I, Siega Riz AM, McMahon MJ, Buekens P |title=Maternal stress and preterm birth |journal=Am. J. Epidemiol. |volume=157 |issue=1 |pages=14–24 |year=2003 |pmid=12505886… …
6labor — I noun 1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (Freq. 20) there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field • Syn: ↑labour, ↑working class, ↑proletariat • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
7premature labour — noun labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation • Syn: ↑premature labor • Hypernyms: ↑parturiency, ↑labor, ↑labour, ↑confinement, ↑lying in, ↑travail, ↑ …
8premature delivery — noun or premature labor : expulsion of the human fetus after the 28th week of gestation but before the normal time …
9Labor induction — Intervention ICD 9 CM 73.0 73.1 Labor induction is a method of artificially or prematurely stimulating …
10Premature rupture of membranes — (PROM) is a condition which occurs in pregnancy when the amniotic sac ruptures more than an hour before the onset of labor. PROM is prolonged when it occurs more than 18 hours before labor. PROM is preterm (PPROM) when it occurs before 37 weeks… …
