| Pronunciation: | | 'chIld`bed
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| Matching Terms: | | childbearing, childbed fever
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| | Definition: | | [n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" |
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| | Synonyms: | | confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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| | See Also: | | asynclitism, birth, birthing, effacement, gestation, giving birth, obliquity, parturition, pregnancy, premature labor, premature labour, uterine contraction |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Child"bed\, n.
The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in
labor; parturition.
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