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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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