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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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