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Definition of Childbed
1. Noun. Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. "She was in labor for six hours"
Terms within: Uterine Contraction, Effacement, Asynclitism, Obliquity
Generic synonyms: Birth, Birthing, Giving Birth, Parturition
Group relationships: Gestation, Maternity, Pregnancy
Specialized synonyms: Premature Labor, Premature Labour
Derivative terms: Labor, Labour, Parturient, Parturient
Definition of Childbed
1. n. The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
Definition of Childbed
1. Noun. The final stage of pregnancy; confinement ¹
2. Noun. The bed in which a baby is born ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Childbed
1. the state of a woman giving birth [n -S]
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Literary usage of Childbed
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1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"ERGOT IN childbed. DR. ... made some interesting clinical experiments in order
to determine, with something like precision, the value of ergot in childbed. ..."
2. Fecundity, fertility , sterility and allied topics by James Matthews Duncan (1871)
"CHAPTER I. THE MORTALITY OF childbed. THERE are some terms frequently used in
this book which require some definition preliminarily. ..."
3. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"Now the term childbed fever is one of these deceiving words; ... It is, therefore,
unfortunate for science that the word childbed fever was ever introduced, ..."
4. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1896)
"THE INSANITY OF PREGNANCY, childbed, AND LACTATION. WHEN we remember the marked
perturbation of the nervous system, in even normal pregnancy, ..."
5. Catalogue Raisonné of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital by Emil Fischer, August Frederick Müller (1857)
"Diseases and Accidents of Pregnancy and childbed in General. Churchill, 2911, 0.
... death of women in childbed. By George Kerr. Lond. 1818. ..."
6. The London Medical Recorder (1850)
"He as carefully omits to mention to your readers and his pupils that, owing to
the prevalence of the same disease, the mortality in childbed in Edinburgh, ..."
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