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lying-in
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lying-in has 1 sense
- lying-in(n = noun.state) childbed, confinement, labor, labour, 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
lying-in, n.
- The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement; as, a lying-in hospital. [1913 Webster]
- The act of bearing a child. [1913 Webster]
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