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PREMATURE LABOUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does premature labour mean?
• PREMATURE LABOUR (noun)
The noun PREMATURE LABOUR has 1 sense:
1. labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation
Familiarity information: PREMATURE LABOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 labour" 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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