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

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

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.

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..

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

Throe :: Throe (n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition..

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