PREMATURE LABOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does premature labor mean? 

• PREMATURE LABOR (noun)
  The noun PREMATURE LABOR has 1 sense:

1. labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

  Familiarity information: PREMATURE LABOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREMATURE LABOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

premature labor; premature labour

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)