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childbed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun childbed has 1 sense
- childbed(n = noun.state) confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" has parts: uterine contraction, effacement, asynclitism, obliquity
is a kind of birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
is a part of gestation, maternity, pregnancy
has particulars: premature labor, premature labour
CIDE DICTIONARY
childbed, n.
The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition. [1913 Webster]
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