Definition of Labour pains

1. Noun. A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth.

Exact synonyms: Birth Pangs, Labor Pains
Generic synonyms: Pang

Medical Definition of Labour pains

1. Rhythmical uterine contractions which under normal conditions increase in intensity, frequency, and duration, culminating in vaginal delivery of the infant. Synonym: parodynia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Labour Pains

labors
labors of love
laborsaving
laborshed
laborsheds
laborsome
labour
labour'd
labour-intensive
labour camp
labour camps
labour complications
labour force
labour of love
labour onset
labour presentation
labour union
labour unions
labouratory
laboured
laboured respiration
labouredly
labourer
labourers
labourest
laboureth
labouring
labourious
labouriously

Literary usage of Labour pains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1898)
"The chief advantage of quinine is that it does not produce tetanic contraction of the uterine walls, but merely increases the strength of the labour pains, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1869)
"But these closely resemble those false labour-pains which only affect the fundus, and do not dilate the os uteri ; they are merely instinctive efforts on ..."

3. Obstetrics: a text-book for the use of students and practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1904)
"Force exerted by labour pains.—On this point there has been a good deal of misconception, and a marked tendency towards exaggeration appears in the writings ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1852)
"A copious gush of blood took place at 12, pm Mr. Dorrington saw her at 2, am ; she was faint ; pulse feeble ; no hemorrhage or labour pains ; the uterus was ..."

5. A System of Midwifery: Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1876)
"... Blood of Carbonate of Ammonta: Effects of Pressure on the Renal Veins: Detection of Albumen in the Urine—Morbid Anatomy—Effect of labour pains— Maternal ..."

6. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"... from tin, 'labour pains,' and *v<Tif, 'solution.' Mitigation of labour pains. ODIS. Pains, labour. ODMR, Odour. ODON'TAGRA, from oint, ..."

7. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1855)
"The observations of Professor MARTIN and of Herr MAUER on the influence of labour-pains upon the pulse are of great physiological and pathological interest. ..."

8. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Puerperal convulsions have these characters belonging to them; they always occur in paroxysms, and those paroxysms occur periodically, like labour pains; ..."

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