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Definition of Labor pains
1. Noun. A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labor Pains
Literary usage of Labor pains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"At the end of twelve hours of regular labor pains, the cervix was completely dilated,
... The labor pains ceased and she was unable to expel the child. ..."
2. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1896)
"Action of labor-pains upon the uterine walls.—Contraction of ligaments.—Action
of abdominal muscles.—Action of vagina.—The pain of labor. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"ABNORMAL LABOR-PAINS AND ... of Heidelberg, divides abnormal labor-pains into
those which are purely atonic and those which are partially spasmodic in their ..."
4. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"labor pains.—The contractions of the womb take place at intervals which are ...
The whole duration of the whole of the labor pains, supposing each one to ..."
5. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"when labor-pains would be sufficiently active to secure uterine ... Upon last
Saturday labor-pains became suddenly severe, and the operation was at once ..."
6. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"The labor pains, besides being weaker, are also more irregular during slight ...
The labor pains generally continue diminished in power for some time after ..."
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