PREMATURE LABOR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

Synonyms:

premature labor; premature labour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("premature labor" is a kind of...):

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)

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