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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..

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

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.

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

Agalaxy :: Agalaxy (n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Obstetrics :: Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to 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..

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