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Definition of Premature labour
1. Noun. Labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation.
Generic synonyms: Childbed, Confinement, Labor, Labour, Lying-in, Parturiency, Travail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Premature Labour
Literary usage of Premature labour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"cing premature labour waa nut less striking, although the degree of distortion
waa so great that a child of seven mouths could not be born alive. 1. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"Observations on the Induction of premature labour before the Seventh Month of
Pregnancy. By ROBERT LEE, MD (Proceedings of Royal Medical and ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"Further, Dr. Macdonald thought that the operation of inducing premature labour
in cases of contracted pelvis was to be discouraged and even abandoned. ..."
4. The Principles of Midwifery: Including the Diseases of Women and Children by John Burns (1843)
"A feeling of slackness about the belly, with different anomalous sensations,
often accompany this stage of premature labour. When the cervix is expanded, ..."
5. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"If the expulsion take place between the sixth and ninth month, the woman is said
to have a premature labour. The law makes no distinction of this kind, ..."
6. A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery by William Smoult Playfair (1878)
"CHAPTER X. ABORTION AND premature labour. THE premature expulsion of the foetus
is an event of great Impor- frequency. The number of foetal lives thus lost ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1840)
"Dr Pa- terson has related two interesting cases of the induction of premature
labour by means of the ergot of rye. Deformity of the pelvis was the cause of ..."
8. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"H—ARTIFICIAL ABORTION : In other words, the Induction of premature labour.
Our laws do not formally recognise the induction of premature labour by the ..."
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